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.
by Friedrich Christian Accum
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Gas-lighting, Gas manufacture and worksPlaces
Great Britain
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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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