How did off-grid UK homes in the 1800s generate gas?
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I suspect that many of them would have produced acetylene gas by the chemical reaction of Calcium Carbide and Water...
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I recently visited Culzean Castle in Scotland and they had a Gas House there. Incredibly, the owner of the house considered gas to be much safer than electricity for lighting, so the gas house continued to be used even after electricity was available.
The gas house originally generated coal gas, and then later provided acetylene.
As an aside, it's a beautiful place for a day out with lots to see.
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I have a copy of The Victorian Country House, Mark Girouard, 1971,1979.
Section 12 of the introduction discusses gas and electric lighting. It mentions a few country houses which had their own gasworks to provide gas, and others which piped in gas from public gasworks in communities sometimes miles away.
"But for most country houses installing gas involve building a gasworks and taking some kind of technician on the payroll; this and other drawbacks meant that many continued to rely on candles or colza lamps."
The main section has articles about individual country house (mansions) which often mention whether they had gas lighting and their own gasworks.
And the catalog section has short entries on many more houses, which often mention if they had gas lighting.
So I guess that during the Victorian eras hundreds of new or older country houses (out of a few thousand total) had gas lighting, and most of them had their own gasworks to produce the gas.
But I don't know what chemical processes were used to produce gas in the gasworks of country houses or cities and towns.
Added Friday the 13th, January 2023. Graham in a comment provided a link to a description of the processes of producing gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification#Chemical_reactions
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