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
COAL TAR 298
COAL OIL 300
PITCH 302
AMMONIACAL LIQUOR 303
MANUFACTURE OF CARBONATE OF AMMONIA FROM THE AMMONIACAL LIQUOR 303
MANUFACTURE OF MURIATE OF AMMONIA FROM THE AMMONIACAL LIQUOR 307
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES 315
INDEX TO THE WORK 321
LONDON PRICE LIST OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL ARTICLES EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF COAL GAS 331
ADVERTISEMENT.
The author of this work respectfully informs the public, that they may
be furnished with estimates, and plans for the building of Gas Works,
particularly adapted to the circumstances of the places where they are
to be established, and that he proposes to superintend the erection of
the works.
Mr. Accum also engages to supply the whole of the Gas Apparatus ready
for immediate use, and to guaranty its efficient performance.
Or he will contract with any committee, directory, or public company,
for Lighting with Gas, any Town, Manufactory, or Building, upon
whatever scale of magnitude, for an annual specific sum.
Of the qualifications for the services which he thus proffers, he
would speak with diffidence. Such proofs as he is able to offer of
them, are to be found in the work here laid before the reader, beyond
which he would add no more than the flattering testimony of
approbation, with which his labours have been honoured, in having been
selected by HIS MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT to plan and erect the GAS WORKS
at the ROYAL MINT, and since entrusted with the active management and
superintendance of that establishment.
_Compton Street, Soho,
May 28, 1819._
The following particulars are required to be stated by those who are
desirous of receiving estimates, concerning the comparative economy of
applying coal gas as a substitute for oil, wax, or tallow light.
1. A plan of the place to be lighted with Gas, drawn to a scale not
less than one tenth of an inch, to ten feet. The design must exhibit
the particular spot, where the Machinery is to be erected.
2. The kind of gas lights required, namely; whether the lights shall
be equal in illuminating power to one, or more tallow candles of a
given weight, or equal to an argand lamp.
3. The number of lights.
4. The average time the lights are to burn, throughout the year.
5. The average price of coal, and rate of workmen’s wages, at the
place where the light is wanted.
AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING
~Coal Gas~.
PART I.
_General Nature and Advantages of the art of procuring Light, by means
of Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal Gas._
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