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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 / by Fredrick Accum
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EXPERIMENTS ON THE METHODS

Expenditure of Process ,A.

Coals, decomposed, 103 chaldron 12bushel, at£2. 11s. 6d. the chaldron,

(27 Cwt.).£266 2 0

Small Coal, 43 chaldron, 14 bushels,

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used for fuel, at £2. 2s. the chaldron 91 2 4

W ages of two additional workmen(not required had the retorts beenworked at eight hours charges,)at <£1. 16s. each man, the week . 3 12 0

Total expenditure, 4;.360 17 0

Products of Process Jl.

Coke, 103 chaldron, 12 bushel, at

£1. 7s. the chaldron .... .£139 10 0

Breeze, or small coke, 6 chaldron,

9 bushels, at 18s. the chaldron . 5 12 6

Tar, 7\ tons, at £6. the ton ... 46 10 0

Ammoniaeal liquor, 1864 gallons,

at 1 \d. the gallon. 11 13 O

Gas, 857,667 cubic feet, at 15s. the

thousand cubic feet. 643 5 O

Total for products, £846 10 6