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 : with seven plates / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist ; lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Limæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.
Alternate Title(s):
Accum's Plans of the gas-works in London and other towns of Great Britain
Edition:
The second edition.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Thomas Boys, No. 7, Ludgate Hill. (From No. 3 Paternoster Row), MDCCXX [1820][London] : C. Green, printer, 15, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, [1820]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 334, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Spine title, on publisher's original illustrated boards: Accum's Plans of the gas-works in London and other towns of Great Britain. With seven plates.
Subject Terms:
Gas-lighting. | Gas manufacture and works -- Great Britain. | Coal gasification plants. | Green, C. -- Printer. | Westley & Tyrrell -- Bookseller.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1820.
Contributors:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838. Practical treatise on gas-light. | Boys, Thomas Publisher. | Read, W., active 1824-1837, engraver. | Lowry, Wilson, 1762-1824, illustrator. | Mulholland, illustrator. | Palmer, G. H., illustrator.