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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Name: 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
Author: Accum, Friedrich Christian

Accum, Friedrich Christian

Gas manufacture and works -- Great Britain; Gas-lighting

GENERAL NATURE AND ADVANTAGES OF THE ART OF PROCURING LIGHT, BY
  MEANS OF CARBURETTED HYDROGEN, OR COAL GAS                           1

  PART II.

  OUTLINE OF THE NEW ART OF PROCURING LIGHT BY MEANS OF COAL GAS,
  AND THEORY OF THE PRODUCTION OF GAS LIGHTS                          33

  PART III.

  CLASSIFICATION OF PIT COAL, AND MAXIMUM QUANTITY OF GAS,
  OBTAINABLE FROM DIFFERENT KINDS OF COAL                             41

  PART IV.

  FORM AND DIMENSIONS OF THE RETORTS ORIGINALLY EMPLOYED FOR
  MANUFACTURING COAL GAS                                              51

  APPLICATION OF HEAT--FLUE PLAN ORIGINALLY ADOPTED                   59

  REPORT ON A COURSE OF OPERATIONS, MADE WITH SETS OF 66, OF 30, OF
  116, AND OF 64 RETORTS, WORKED ON THE FLUE PLAN                     61

  OVEN PLAN LATELY ADOPTED                                            67

  DESCRIPTION OF THE RETORT OVEN                                      69

  PART V.

  DIFFERENCE IN THE QUANTITY OF GAS EVOLVED DURING DIFFERENT
  PERIODS OF THE DISTILLATORY PROCESS, AND ECONOMICAL
  CONSIDERATIONS RESULTING THEREFROM IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COAL GAS   77

  EXPERIMENTS WITH 18 CYLINDRICAL RETORTS, CONTAINING ONE CHALDRON
  OF COAL                                                             80

  EXPERIMENT WITH THIRTY-SIX PARALLELOPIPEDAL RETORTS, EACH
  CONTAINING TWO BUSHELS OF COAL                                      81

  REPORT ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTS MADE TO ASCERTAIN THE
  COMPARATIVE ECONOMY OF MANUFACTURING EVERY WEEK, 857,667 CUBIC
  FEET OF GAS, BY MEANS OF CYLINDRICAL RETORTS VARIOUSLY WORKED       84

  PART VI.

  TEMPERATURE BEST ADAPTED FOR WORKING CYLINDRICAL RETORTS            94

  ANNUAL CREDITOR AND DEBTOR ACCOUNT OF MANUFACTURING DAILY, FROM
  50,000 TO 102,000 CUBIC FEET OF GAS, AT THE PRICE WHICH COAL
  BEARS IN THE METROPOLIS, THE OPERATION BEING COMMENCED WITH NEW
  RETORTS, AND THE RETORTS BEING LEFT IN A FIT WORKING STATE          97

  COMPARATIVE FACILITY WITH WHICH THE DECOMPOSITION OF DIFFERENT
  SPECIES OF COAL IS EFFECTED                                        106

  PART VII.

  HORIZONTAL ROTARY RETORTS, LATELY BROUGHT INTO USE FOR
  MANUFACTURING COAL GAS                                             110

  DESCRIPTION OF THE HORIZONTAL ROTARY RETORTS AT THE ROYAL MINT     112

  ACTION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE HORIZONTAL ROTARY RETORTS             120

  ADVANTAGES OF THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COAL GAS BY MEANS OF
  HORIZONTAL ROTARY RETORTS                                          124

  DIRECTIONS TO WORKMEN WITH REGARD TO THE MANAGEMENT OF HORIZONTAL
  ROTARY RETORTS                                                     134

  PART VIII.

  PURIFYING APPARATUS, OR LIME MACHINE                               140

  LIME MACHINE ORIGINALLY EMPLOYED FOR THE PURIFICATION OF COAL GAS  141

  LIME MACHINE LATELY ADOPTED                                        149

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