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Ref No	DM1306/11/1/5/folio 45-46
Title	Letter from George Bower to Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Description	Written from St Neots. Bower mentions that he has read somewhere that a man in York has been given instructions to light the Great Eastern with gas and mentions that since Bower received a letter from Brunel stating that nothing would be done with gas lighting for the Great Eastern's first few voyages, he has been making various experiments to do with using and sorting gas with a view to inviting Brunel to see the results but that if Brunel has settled on someone else as the gas supplier, he will not carry on his experiments, even though Bower believes his apparatus is unequalled.
Date	1 August 1857
Format	Manuscript volume
Extent	2 pages
Access Conditions	This material is held at the Brunel Institute - please contact the Brunel Institute to arrange access.

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