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ANYONE casting his mind back for twenty years cannot fail to remark on the greatly increased interest in the problems of manufacture and utilisation of fuels. This is largely, although not entirely, a legacy of the War and its interruption of normal supplies, the rise of economic nationalism and the lesson of what could be achieved by the purposeful application of science. Early efforts were individual, in private concerns or educational institutions, but all over the world, State action has followed; for example, the British Fuel on Fuel Technology Research Board was established to study the production of liquid fuel for the Navy by the carbonisation of coal at low temperatures. Experience soon showed that no immediate solution lay in that direction, and the Report of the Board for the year ending March 31, 1933 (H.M. Stationery Office, 2s. 6d. net) shows that this aim is still unattained, although retorts of new design are giving promising service.
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H., H. Recent Researches on Fuel Technology. Nature 133, 386–387 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133386b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133386b0