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Belfast: 'Evolution of Lighting: Ireland'. Gas Works, mechanical stoker and drawer

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 7 older comments, and then…
• Niall McAuley said:

  Gas lighting was not new in 1900, electricity was already replacing it.

• Niall McAuley said:

  The innovation here is a machine which stokes the boiler instead of having men with shovels do it.

• Fred Dean Snr. said:

  Belfast Gasworks was built on Ormeau Road, between 1887 and 1893. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtjBjgHkAAM

• DannyM8 said:

  Robots taking jobs in 1900 - the headlines do not change!!

• Niall McAuley said:

  Wikipedia article on the Mechanical Stoker