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

Friedrich Christian Accum

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

PART I. General Nature and Advantages of the art of procuring

PART II. Outline of the new art of procuring light by means of

PART III. Classification of Pit-coal, and maximum quantity of

PART IV. Form and dimensions of the Retorts originally employed for manufacturing Coal Gas.

PART V. Difference in the quantity of Gas evolved during

PART VI. Temperature best adapted for working Cylindrical Retorts.

PART VII. Horizontal Rotary Retorts, lately brought into use for manufacturing coal gas.

PART VIII. Purifying Apparatus, or Lime Machine.

PART IX. Gas Holder.

PART X. Gas Metre, or Self-acting Guage, which measures and

PART XI. Governor or Regulating Guage.

PART XII. Gas Mains, and Branch Pipes.

PART XIII. Gas Lamps, and Burners.

PART XIV. Illuminating power of Coal Gas, and quantity of Gas

PART XV. Gas from Coal Tar.

PART XVI. Other products obtainable from Coal, namely: Coal

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.

INDEX.

LONDON PRICE LIST

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Accums’, Description of Gas Works.
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Mulholland Del^t. W. Read, Sculp^t. Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.

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.

Plate I.

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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