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.
Accum, Friedrich Christian
Candles; Gas-lighting
Gasometer-house, built of frame-work and weather-boarded 250 0
Twenty-four retorts set in brick-work, with furnaces } 336 0
for ditto, compleat }
Sundries 100 0
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£ 1940 11
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A gas-light apparatus complete for work, capable of affording every
twenty-four hours a quantity of light equal to 1,400 Argand’s Lamps,
each lamp equal in intensity to six candles, six in the pound, burning
for five hours, will cost 3,500_l._ if erected in this metropolis.
LONDON Price List of the most essential articles[44] employed in the
erection of a Gas-Light apparatus.
[44] All the articles are warranted to be perfect and of the best
kind. They are delivered free of expence at any wharf between London
and Westminster-bridge.
Sheet-iron pipes brazed.
_s._ _d._
¼ inch in diameter 0 4 a foot}
⅜ ditto 0 4 ditto}
½ ditto 0 5 ditto}
⅝ ditto 0 6 ditto}
¾ ditto 0 6½ ditto} in
⅞ ditto 7 ditto} 15
1 inch, ditto 0 7½ ditto} to
1¼ ditto 0 9 ditto} 18
1½ ditto 0 10½ ditto} feet
1¾ ditto 0 11 ditto} lengths.
2 inch, ditto 1 1½ ditto}
2¼ ditto 1 4 ditto}
2½ ditto 1 5 ditto}
3 inch, ditto 1 6½ ditto}
Copper pipes brazed ¼ inch 0 4 per foot
Ditto, ditto, ditto ⅜ inch 0 5½ ditto
Gas-light cockspur burners with stop-cock 2s 6d to 3s 6d
Argand’s lamps, with glass-holders, from 3s to 4s 6d
Cast-iron retorts, weighing 7 cwt. at 15s 6d per cwt £5 8 6
Mouth-piece for ditto, compleat 1 14 8
Cast-iron door frames for retort furnace 1 0 0
Furnace bars 10s. per cwt.
Sheet iron for gazometer (No. 23) 24s. per cwt.
Gazometer chains, 5d per lb.
Ballance weights [Plates] for gazometer, 9l 10s per ton.
Cast-iron cistern plates
------------------------ smaller size for lime machine, 18l per ton.
------------------------ middling size for tar cistern, 16l ditto
------------------------ largest size for gazometer cistern 14l ditto
Cast-iron flanch pipes 2-inch diameter, at 5s per yd. in 6 feet lengths
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