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.

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