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

aperçu de leur état actuel, sous les points de vue de la mécanique et de l'industrie, pour conduire à la solution accomplie du problème que présentent ces machines

with a practical investigation of its structure and application

with an historical notice of the rise and progressive improvement of the steam-engine : being the prize essay on this subject at the London Mechanics' Institution in the year 1833

with an appendix, bringing the information down to the present time