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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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Retorts cylindrical, temperature best adapted for

working- them ...... 94

-conical ..... 52

-comparative power of . 55

-ellipsoidal. .... 53

-horizontal rotary . . . . .110

-at the Royal Mint Gas

Works.112

-- - Birmingham . . Ill

-Chester . . . Ill

-Kidderminster . . Ill

-action and management of 121

-advantages of . . . 124

---directions to workmen with

regard to working them .... 134

-parallelopipedal ..... 52

-comparative power of . 55

-best mode of working them 93

-semi-cylindrical ... 53

-oven, description of, at the Westminster and

City of London Gas Works ... 69

-experiments on .... 84

Revolving gas holder, at the Westminster Gas Works 181-rule for calculating its capa-

185

196

171

221

257

city ....

S.

Safety valve, reciprocating .Self-acting guage, (see governor)Siphon ....Sliding chandelier

 
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