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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1886, Vol. 84: With Other Selected and Abstracted Papers
Ekman. - Another early form of gas-producer (which is illustrated in Percy's Metallurgy) was invented by Gustav Ekman of Sweden,2 and was successfully used there prior to 1845, along with gas furnaces which were also designed by the same ironmaster.
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