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 V.

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DIFFERENCE IN THE QUANTITY OF GAS EVOLVED DURING DIFFERENT PERIODS OF THE DISTILLATORY PROCESS, AND ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS RESULTING THEREFROM IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COAL GAS 77

EXPERIMENTS WITH 18 CYLINDRICAL RETORTS, CONTAINING ONE CHALDRON OF COAL 80

EXPERIMENT WITH THIRTY-SIX PARALLELOPIPEDAL RETORTS, EACH CONTAINING TWO BUSHELS OF COAL 81

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 WORKED 84