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With the beginning of the industrial revolution around 1800, oil became increasingly important for lubrication and better illumination. Expensive vegetable oils were replaced by sperm whale oil [8002-24-2], which soon became scarce and its price skyrocketed. In 1850 lubrication oil was extracted from coal and oil shale (qv) in England, and ultimately about 130 plants in Great Britain and 64 plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky employed this process. 

Chapman, A., England s Leonardo Robert Hooke (1635-1703) and the art of experiment in restoration England, Proc. R. Inst. Great Britain, 67, 239, 1996. 

Many figures were drawn with the programs Atoms by E. Dowty and Diamond by K. Brandenburg Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, England This book is printed on acid-free paper responsibly manufactured from sustainable forestry in which at least two trees are planted for each one used for paper production. 

Set in Times on Linotron and printed offset by J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol, England Made in Great Britain... 

Timothy Dwight, in his Travels in New England and New York, described the tinware trade carried on by pedlars in New England, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Immediately after the late war with Great Britain, which terminated in 1815, said he, ten thousand boxes of tinned plates were manufactured into culinary vessels in the town of Berlin (Connecticut) in one year. This business afterward declined (223). 

In Great Britain they are frequently referred to as E.C. powder (this stands for Explosives Company, one of the early manufacturers in England). In the U.S.A. they are usually referred to as bulk powder, probably because they were loaded in bulk, volume for volume, with blackpowder. 

Anthracite is found most extensively in America, where it constitutes immauso deposits. Lx England, it is chiefly worked in the South Wales coal-field, although it may be met with in large quantities in other basins. The total area of this description of fuel in Great Britain and Ireland is about threo thousand seven hundred and twenty acres. 

A most valuable addition to our knowledge of the iron ores of the Northern and North Midland Counties of England has been recently given to the world, in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, These are to be further extended, and the completion... 

In April of 2000, a contaminated batch of heroin began a deadly march across Great Britain. By August, more than 40 people in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland died. Researchers eventually identified Clostridium vovyi type A, a highly toxic bacterium that grows in soil and animals. Clostridium itself is harmless, but its dormant spores produce deadly toxins when released. 

Hepworth W., Gilbert J. S. US Patent No. 3,538,107 Nov. 3, 1970 Assigned to Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, London, England, a corporation of Great Britain... 

Ewins A.J. et al. US Patent No. 2,277,861 March 31, 1942 Assigned May and Baker, Limited, London, England, a company of Great Britain and Northern Ireland... 

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