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A Practical Treatise on Gas-light: Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.Accum, Friedrich Christian

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A Practical Treatise on Gas-light: Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.

Name: A Practical Treatise on Gas-light: Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.
Author: Accum, Friedrich Christian

Accum, Friedrich Christian

Candles; Gas-lighting

TABULAR VIEW, Exhibiting the quantity of GAS, COKE, TAR, PITCH,
  ESSENTIAL OIL, and AMMONIACAL LIQUOR, obtainable from a given quantity
  of COAL: together with an estimate of the quantity of Coal necessary
  to produce a quantity of Gas, capable of yielding a Light equal in
  duration of time and intensity to that produced by Tallow Candles of
  different kinds.                                                  164.

  DESCRIPTION OF THE GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS.                           166.

  METHOD of correcting the relative pressure of the Gasometer, so as to
  cause the gas which it contains to be uniformly of an equal density.
                                                                    181.

  DIRECTIONS TO WORKMEN ATTENDING THE GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS.          182.

  ESTIMATE of the price of a Gas-Light Apparatus.                   185.

  LONDON Price List of the most essential articles employed in the
  erection of a Gas-light Apparatus.                                186.

ERRATA.

  Page 24, line 11, _for_ too, _read_ two.
       48,      22, _for_ corporated, _read_ incorporated.
       53,       7, _for_ this combustion, _read_ the combustion.
       64,      24, _for_ CLEG, _read_ CLEGG.
    _ibid_      25, _for_ communicates, _read_ communicated.
       65,          erase the * and put it after the word CLEGG, line
                    24, p. 64.
    _ibid_      17, _for_ attemps, _read_ attempts.
      125,      23, _for_ degree, _read_ degrees.
      132,      25, _for_ coal, _read_ coal-tar.

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER:

  Plate I. facing the title; plate II. facing page 79; plate III. facing
  page 115; plate IV. facing page 119; plate V. facing page 120; and
  plates VI. and VII. at the end of the book.

  A
  PRACTICAL TREATISE
  ON
  GAS-LIGHT.

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATION.

INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF THE ARTS UPON THE MORALS AND CONDITION OF
MAN.

It is an undoubted truth, that the successive improvements in the
condition of man, from a state of ignorance and barbarism, to that of
the highest cultivation and refinement, are usually effected by the aid
of machinery and expedients, calculated to procure the necessaries, the
comforts, and the elegancies of life; and that the pre-eminence of any
people in civilization is, and ought ever to be, estimated by the
proportional state of industry, and useful labour existing among them.

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