The author and professor Ferdinand Fischer presents the significance and production of fuel gas in this volume. He describes the raw materials for production, such as wood, peat, and coal, as well as the processes of carbonization and gasification, illuminating gas and coke gas, water gas, mixed gas from anthracite and hard coal, as well as fuel gas from coal, peat, and wood, blast furnace gases, and much more. Illustrated with 186 black and white images. Reprint of the original edition from 1911.