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

PART X.

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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 CONSUMED DURING A GIVEN PERIOD, BY ANY NUMBER OF BURNERS OR LAMPS 200

DESCRIPTION OF THE GAS METRE AT THE ROYAL MINT GAS WORKS 214

RULE FOR CALCULATING THE WEIGHT, WHICH A GAS METRE OF GIVEN DIMENSIONS, WILL RAISE, TO A GIVEN HEIGHT, IN A GIVEN TIME 220

GAS HOLDER VALVE 221

SIPHON, OR WATER RESERVOIR 221