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Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
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1815
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Candles.
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Gas manufacture and works.
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Gas-lighting -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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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 / by Frederick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Linnæn Society, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.
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Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
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1815
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[2], iii, [1], v, [1], 186 p., VII leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
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