William Murdock - Inventor of Gaslight

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Date:25th of March 1893

Description:Article from the Daily Graphic about William Murdock's experiments in Redruth. Murdock worked as an engineer for the firm of Matthew Boulton and James Watt in Handsworth, but for some years he represented the company's interest in Cornwall.

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Murdock, William Innovations & Inventions 1766 - 1800 (Mid-Georgian period & the Industrial Revolution

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