Too much gas?
I used two translators and here is what they both said of the Latin inscription at the top of the old gasworks in Maryborough, Queensland. It needs a bit of interpretation - "out of the smoke to give the light of the" .......hmmm, perhaps they heat the coal in a retort and the gas is extracted and gives flame and light. I never did Latin but it was still referred to and spoken about by teachers at school. I am sure that doesn't happen now but I am honestly grateful to have touched occasionally on this classic language.
And a classic industrial building of the late 1800's for sure. 1879 in fact.
Old Gasworks, Maryborough, Queensland.
Too much gas?
I used two translators and here is what they both said of the Latin inscription at the top of the old gasworks in Maryborough, Queensland. It needs a bit of interpretation - "out of the smoke to give the light of the" .......hmmm, perhaps they heat the coal in a retort and the gas is extracted and gives flame and light. I never did Latin but it was still referred to and spoken about by teachers at school. I am sure that doesn't happen now but I am honestly grateful to have touched occasionally on this classic language.
And a classic industrial building of the late 1800's for sure. 1879 in fact.
Old Gasworks, Maryborough, Queensland.