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

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TEMPERATURE BEST ADAPTED FOR WORKING CYLINDRICAL RETORTS 94

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 COMMENCED WITH NEW RETORTS, AND THE RETORTS BEING LEFT IN A FIT WORKING STATE 97

COMPARATIVE FACILITY WITH WHICH THE DECOMPOSITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIES OF COAL IS EFFECTED 106