A person or machine that manufactures or produces gas, especially coal gas used for heating and lighting in the 19th-20th centuries.
Compound word from 'gas' + 'maker' (Old English 'macian' meaning to make), referring to workers in gasworks plants who produced coal gas.
Gasmakers were industrial heroes of the Victorian era—they produced the coal gas that lit cities and heated homes before electricity, and gasworks were massive, pollution-heavy facilities that shaped urban development.
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