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

The name of gas holder, or, as it is improperly called, gasometer, is given to the vessel employed for collecting the gas and storing it up for use. In the principle and constru...

In the year 1665, Becher, a German chemist, brought to England his discovery for extracting tar from coal, this distillation he performed in close vessels. It is not mentioned i...

The new art of lighting houses, streets and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal gas, is one of those modern discoveries on which the admirers of science and the in...

The many disadvantages attendant on the plan of decomposing coal in masses from five to ten inches in thickness, as already sufficiently exposed in the preceding parts, had natu...

_Gas Metre, or Self-acting Guage, which measures and registers, in the absence of the observer, the quantity of Gas produced in a given time, from any given quantity of coal, or...

The proper mode of constructing the retorts in which the coal is distilled, and the art of applying them form an object of primary importance in every gas-light establishment. A...

Coal gas, even as obtained from the best species of coal, must be rendered pure before it is fit for the purpose of illumination. The gas in its crude state always contains a po...

Although the tar which forms one of the products obtained from the decomposition of pit coal, in the manufacture of coal gas, has become an article of commerce, being found appl...

The lamps or burners for the combustion of coal gas, may be infinitely and tastefully varied. The varieties commonly employed, are the Argand burner, the Cockspur burner, and th...

The name of _mains_, is given in the strictest sense of the word, to the cast-iron pipes from two inches in diameter and upwards, placed under ground, for conveying the gas into...

The governor or regulating guage, the construction of which has already been detailed, page 171, we shall here consider as an instrument by means of which the gas flames of lamp...

In conducting the decomposition of coal, the evolution of the gas is far from being, with regard to quantity, uniform during different periods of the distillatory process. The f...

There is perhaps no subject in the art of manufacturing coal gas, on which practical men are less agreed, than they are on the temperature most economically to be employed for t...

The illuminating power of coal gas, differs according to the nature of the coal from which it is obtained, and the manner in which it is purified, together with the quantity of...

We have stated already that pitcoal is in this country the cheapest crude natural production from which carburetted hydrogen gas can be obtained in the large way. It is that whi...

The gases thus obtained are called carburetted hydrogen; they produce, from their combustion, water and carbonic acid. The species of carburetted hydrogen, procured from pit-coa...

The author of this work respectfully informs the public, that they may be furnished with estimates, and plans for the building of Gas Works, particularly adapted to the circumst...

GAS METRE, OR SELF-ACTING GUAGE, WHICH MEASURES AND REGISTERS, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE OBSERVER, THE QUANTITY OF GAS PRODUCED IN A GIVEN TIME, FROM ANY GIVEN QUANTITY OF COAL, OR...

REPORT ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTS MADE TO ASCERTAIN THE COMPARATIVE ECONOMY OF MANUFACTURING EVERY WEEK, 857,667 CUBIC FEET OF GAS, BY MEANS OF CYLINDRICAL RETORTS VARIOUSLY WOR...

ANNUAL CREDITOR AND DEBTOR ACCOUNT OF MANUFACTURING DAILY, FROM 50,000 TO 102,000 CUBIC FEET OF GAS, AT THE PRICE WHICH COAL BEARS IN THE METROPOLIS, THE OPERATION BEING COMMENC...