Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets Houses, and Public Buildings

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Pl. II. Accums’, Description of Gas Works. to Face Title.

Illustration from Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets Houses, and Public Buildings With Elevations, Sections, and Plans of the Most Improved Sorts of Apparatus Now Employed at the Gas Works in London and the Principal Provincial Towns of Great Britain; Accompanied With Comparative Estimates, Exhibiting the Most Economical Mode of Procuring This Species of Light

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Gas Light Apparatus, Erected by Order of Government at THE ROYAL MINT, by Fredc^k. Accum.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING COAL GAS, FOR THE LIGHTING OF STREETS HOUSES, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, WITH ELEVATIONS, SECTIONS, AND PLANS OF THE MOST IMPROVED SORTS OF APPARATUS NOW EMPLOYED AT THE Gas Works in London, AND THE PRINCIPAL PROVINCIAL TOWNS OF GREAT BRITAIN; Accompanied with comparative Estimates, exhibiting the most Economical Mode of procuring this species of Light.

WITH SEVEN PLATES.

By FREDRICK ACCUM, OPERATIVE CHEMIST,

Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, on Mineralogy, and on Chemistry applied to the Arts and Manufactures; Member o£ the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Limnæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

London.

PRINTED FOR THOMAS BOYS. N^o. 7. LUDGATE-HILL. (FROM N^o. 3, PATERNOSTER ROW)

MDCCCXIX.

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