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
ditto 3 ditto 6s ditto 6 ditto
ditto 4 ditto 8s 6d ditto 9 ditto
ditto 5 ditto 10s ditto 9 ditto
ditto 6 ditto 12s ditto 9 ditto
ditto 7 ditto 13s 6d ditto 9 ditto
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ditto 9} 11l. 5s. per ton 9 ditto
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½ inch nuts, screws and washers to put iron pipes together 7d. per lb
⅝ ditto 7d. ditto
¾ ditto 6d. ditto
English bar-iron 13l. per ton
Best, ditto 18l. ditto
_FINIS._
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_London Pub. April 1-1815, at R·Ackermann’s, 101 Strand._]
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Transcriber’s notes
The entries in the Table of Contents do not always conform to the
chapter and section headings in the text. Both have been retained as in
the original work.
The errata have already been incorporated in the text; the error
mentioned as occurring on page 24 actually occurs on page 22.
The original language, including inconsistencies in spelling,
hyphenation, punctuation, formatting, etc. has been retained, except as
mentioned below.
Unclear parts of the text have been checked against the on-line copy of
this book of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.
Fractions like ½ and 1-10th have both been retained.
Page 90, Van Dieman, Troostwyck: Jan Rudolph Deiman and Adriaan Paets
van Troostwijk.
Changes made to the text:
Obvious punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected
silently.
Some footnotes, tables and illustrations have been moved; some tables
have been re-arranged.
Other changes:
Page 23: any surfaces changed to any surface
Page 26: opening or shuting changed to opening or shutting
Page 47: A New changed to A new
Page 48: trafic changed to traffic; footnote [10]: corporated changed to
incorporated (cf. errata)
Page 53: This combustion changed to The combustion (cf. errata)
Page 64: Cleg changed to Clegg (cf. errata); footnote anchor [14] moved
from next page (cf. errata, footnote anchor *); communicates changed to
communicated (cf. errata)
Page 67: 1250 + 2 = 2500 changed to 1250 × 2 = 2500
Page 69: Mr. LEE changed to “Mr. LEE for consistency
Page 72: closing quote mark added to letter
Page 96: pure coal- changed to pure coal-gas
Page 102: sub acetate changed to sub-acetate
Page 118: ball 6 changed to ball _b_
Page 119: _e_, are changed to _e_ _e_, are
Page 125: 180 degree changed to 180 degrees (cf. errata); footnote [28]:
may he compleatly changed to may be compleatly
Page 131: and make changed to and makes
Page 132: coal changed to coal-tar (cf. errata)
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