An edition of Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas (1820)

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 second edition, with seven plates.

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An edition of Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas (1820)

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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Language
English
Pages
334

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Subjects

Gas-lighting, Gas manufacture and works

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Great Britain
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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
1820, Printed for Thomas Boys ...
in English - The second edition, with seven plates.

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Edition Notes

Accum entirely rewrote his 1815 Practical treatise on gas light in 1819 and published it under the above title.

Engraved t.p. with colored title-vignette, labeled "Plate 1" (of the seven listed on t.p.)

Spine-title (original cover): "Accum's Plans of the gas-works in London and other towns of Great Britain. With seven plates."

With preface to first edition, London, 1819.

Publisher's booklist of author's works: p. [335]-[336] as issued. Separate illustrated publisher's booklist, 12 p. (17 cm.), inserted inside front cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Titles
Practical treatise on gas-light.

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[2], xv, [1], 334, [2] p., [6] folding colored leaves of plates
Number of pages
334

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OL54356459M
OCLC/WorldCat
23450513

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