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 : with seven plates / by Fredrick 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 Limæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.
Alternate Title(s):
Accum's Plans of the gas-works in London and other towns of Great Britain
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Thomas Boys, No. 7, Ludgate Hill. (From No. 3 Paternoster Row), MDCCXIX [1819][London] : C. Green, printer, 15, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, [1819]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Spine title, on publisher's original illustrated boards: Accum's Plans of the gas-works in London and other towns of Great Britain. With seven plates.
Subject Terms:
Gas manufacture and works -- Great Britain. | Gas-lighting. | Coal gasification plants. | Green, C. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819.
Contributors:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838. Practical treatise on gas-light. | Boys, Thomas, publisher. | Read, W., active 1824–1837, engraver. | Lowry, Wilson, 1762–1824, engraver. | Palmer, G. H., illustrator.