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 LightAccum, Friedrich Christian
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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
Accum, Friedrich Christian
Gas manufacture and works -- Great Britain; Gas-lighting
TEST APPARATUS, FOR CERTIFYING THE PURITY OF COAL GAS, AND THE
PROPER MANNER OF WORKING THE LIME MACHINE 157
BEST METHOD OF PREPARING QUICK-LIME FOR THE PURIFICATION OF COAL
GAS 161
PART IX.
GAS HOLDER 164
GAS HOLDER AS ORIGINALLY EMPLOYED 165
GAS HOLDER WITH GOVERNOR, OR REGULATING GUAGE, LATELY BROUGHT
INTO USE 169
GAS HOLDER WITH GOVERNOR OR REGULATING GUAGE AT THE CHESTER GAS
WORKS 175
GAS HOLDER WITH GOVERNOR OR REGULATING GUAGE AT THE BIRMINGHAM
GAS WORKS 177
REVOLVING GAS HOLDER AT THE WESTMINSTER GAS WORKS 181
RULE FOR FINDING THE CAPACITY OF A REVOLVING GAS HOLDER OF GIVEN
DIMENSIONS 185
COLLAPSING GAS HOLDER 185
RULE FOR FINDING THE CAPACITY OF A COLLAPSING GAS HOLDER OF GIVEN
DIMENSIONS 195
RECIPROCATING SAFETY VALVE 196
PART X.
GAS METRE, OR SELF-ACTING GUAGE, WHICH MEASURES AND REGISTERS, IN
THE ABSENCE OF THE OBSERVER, THE QUANTITY OF GAS PRODUCED IN A
GIVEN TIME, FROM ANY GIVEN QUANTITY OF COAL, OR CONSUMED DURING A
GIVEN PERIOD, BY ANY NUMBER OF BURNERS OR LAMPS 200
DESCRIPTION OF THE GAS METRE AT THE ROYAL MINT GAS WORKS 214
RULE FOR CALCULATING THE WEIGHT, WHICH A GAS METRE OF GIVEN
DIMENSIONS, WILL RAISE, TO A GIVEN HEIGHT, IN A GIVEN TIME 220
GAS HOLDER VALVE 221
SIPHON, OR WATER RESERVOIR 221
PART XI.
GOVERNOR OR REGULATING GUAGE 225
DIRECTIONS TO WORKMEN FOR FIXING THE GOVERNOR AND GAS METRE 229
PART XII.
GAS MAINS AND BRANCH PIPES 239
WEIGHT OF CAST IRON GAS MAINS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS AND BORES 251
PART XIII.
GAS LAMPS AND BURNERS 253
DIRECTIONS TO WORKMEN, FOR ADAPTING GAS PIPES TO THE INTERIOR OF
HOUSES 258
PART XIV.
ILLUMINATING POWER OF COAL GAS, AND QUANTITY OF GAS CONSUMED IN A
GIVEN TIME, BY DIFFERENT KINDS OF BURNERS, AND GAS LAMPS 269
PART XV.
GAS FROM COAL TAR 282
GAS FROM OIL 289
PART XVI.
OTHER PRODUCTS OBTAINABLE FROM COAL, NAMELY:
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