Gasometer used to store coal gas for lighting. From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, published 1824. From an article on Gas Lights (pp. 448-461), plate XXXIII.
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Gasometer, 1824
Gasometer used to store coal gas for lighting. From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, published 1824. From an article on Gas Lights (pp. 448-461), plate XXXIII.
Gasometer, 1824
Gasometer used to store coal gas for lighting. From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, published 1824. From an article on Gas Lights (pp. 448-461), plate XXXIII.
Gasometer, 1829
Hutchinson’s spirometer was based on the gasometer, a common device used by scientists, chemists and glassblowers. From Brande, William Thomas, and William James MacNeven. “A manual of chemistry; containing the principal facts of the science arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. With plates.” New York, 1829,page 68.