A Practical Treatise On Gas-light

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Author

Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838

Title

A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TH: Technology: Building construction

Subject

Gas-lighting

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44567

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44567

Release Date

January 2, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON GAS-LIGHT; EXHIBITING A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF THE APPARATUS AND MACHINERY BEST CALCULATED FOR ILLUMINATING STREETS, HOUSES, AND MANUFACTORIES, WITH CARBURETTED HYDROGEN, OR COAL-GAS, WITH REMARKS ON THE UTILITY, SAFETY, AND GENERAL NATURE OF THIS NEW BRANCH OF CIVIL ECONOMY.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.Contents.
4. 4.ERRATA.
5. 5.DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER:
6. 6.INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATION. — INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF THE ARTS UPON THE MORALS AND CONDITION OF MAN.
7. 7.PART I. — PRODUCTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT; AND THEORY OF THE ACTION OF CANDLES AND LAMPS. — METHOD OF ASCERTAINING THE ILLUMINATING POWER OF CANDLES, LAMPS, GAS-LIGHTS, AND OTHER LUMINOUS BODIES. — FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MODE OF COMPUTING THE RELATIVE COST OR VALUE OF LIGHT, EMITTED BY MEANS OF CANDLES, LAMPS, & OTHER BODIES. — METHOD OF INCREASING THE LIGHT OF TALLOW CANDLES, AND TO OBVIATE THE NECESSITY OF SNUFFING THEM.
8. 8.PART II. — GAS-LIGHT. — PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION. — THEORY OF THE COMBUSTION OF COAL IN ELUCIDATION OF THE NATURE AND PRODUCTION OF GAS LIGHT. — SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE DISCOVERY AND APPLICATION OF COAL-GAS, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROCURING ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. — THEORY OF THE PRODUCTION OF GAS-LIGHT, AND DESCRIPTION OF A PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING, IN THE SMALL WAY, THE GENERAL NATURE OF THIS SPECIES OF LIGHT. — UTILITY OF THE GAS-LIGHT ILLUMINATION, WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ECONOMY. — OTHER PRODUCTS OBTAINABLE FROM COAL: NAMELY, COKE, TAR, ESSENTIAL OIL, &c. — TABULAR VIEW, — DESCRIPTION OF THE GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS. — PLATE I. — PLATE II. — PLATES III. IV. V. — PLATE VI. — PLATE VII. — METHOD of correcting the relative pressure of the Gasometer, so as to cause the gas which it contains to be uniformly of an equal density. [42] — DIRECTIONS TO WORKMEN ATTENDING THE GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS [43] . — ESTIMATE OF THE PRICE OF A GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS, IF ERECTED IN LONDON , — LONDON Price List of the most essential articles [44] employed in the erection of a Gas-Light apparatus.
9. 9.Transcriber’s notes

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