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 | | From their beginning in the United States, at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1816, manufactured gas companies were locally owned, generally the brainchild of a group of several leading citizens, organized under some type of charter, originally that of the State Legislature, but giving over to "franchises" issued by the city or town. |
 | | A newer above-ground gas holder lies to the right rear and an obviously older gas holder is seen to the left, probably serving as the relief holder to buffer the pressure waves associated with moving from blow cycle to run cycle, every few minutes. |
 | | As noted above, an ideal combinational mix of gas manufacturing equipment was to generate gas and coke via coal-gas machines and to employ the coke for general plant heating of boilers and gas-making furnaces, then to employ the coke also as the reactor bed for the carburetted water gas generator sets. |
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