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Excerpt from The Winning, Preparation, and Use of Peat in Ireland: Reports and Other Documents
Athy by Reece, about the middle of last century. An account of the latter Operation is given in a Parliamentary Report on the' Destructive Distillation of Peat, which was submitted to Parliament in 1851 by Sir Robert Kane. At Derrylea, near Portarlington, in 1866 several thousand tons of press peat were manufactured by Hodgson, but his process, like similar Continental ones, was not successful. The oldest known method for converting wet peat by pressure into fuel was that employed in 1844 by C. W. Williams, at Cappoge. In the Bog of Allen, and one of the oldest of the dry press processes, that of Gwynne, was tested on a small scale in 1855 at Kilberry. The manufacture of sieve peat was carried on near the town of Sligo in 1863. Ten years ago attempts were made at Kilberry to facilitate the dehydration of peat by acting on the latter with an alternating electric current. All these processes, aswell as those for the manufacture of paper from peat and the production of ammonia by means of peat, which were worked at Celbridge, Co. Dublin, and Carnlough, Co. Antrim, respectively, were abandoned after short periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
