Granton Gas Works
Further Information
Links
Further information is available at:
- Wikipedia – article on the
Scottish Gas Board
- Wikipedia – article on
Town Gas
- Wikipedia – article on
Gasworks
- The National Gas
Museum website, with interesting background on gas
manufacture, supply and use.
Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia".
Books
Mr Herring wrote two books on the Gas Works:
- Edinburgh & Leith Corporations Gas Commissioners – Granton Works
– Descriptive Pamphlet (39 pages). A copy is in the Edinburgh Room
at
Central Library,
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh;
- The Granton Gas Works, Edinburgh – Their Design, Construction
and Equipment (284 pages, 228 plates). A copy is in the
National Library of Scotland
.
The first of these is a good general description. The second is recommended only if you are very interested!
There is also information on the Gas Works in the following book:
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stranger on the Shore | James Gracie | Argyll Publishing | 2003 | 1902831535 |
Patents
W R Herring patented various improvements to gas manufacture, both before and during his time with the Edinburgh and Leith Corporations Gas Commissioners, both in the UK and the USA including:
- Apparatus for manufacturing oil-gas (1895)
- Process of producing heating and illuminating gas (1899) (with others)
- Mechanism for measuring coal to gas-retorts (1902
- Apparatus for charging inclined retorts (1903)
- Gas-retort discharging apparatus (1903)
- Apparatus for manipulating slide-valves (1903)
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