The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 221
d wood cuts. The annexed engraving shows the construction of aretort, and the manner in which it is set, when a small quantity of gasis required. In country towns, where the quantity of gas made during the winter sea-sons does not exceed 10,000 cubic feet in twenty-four hours, the retorts mustbe… … Mr. Croll, the superintendent of the Chartered Gas Companys works,(Brick Lane station), has introduced a system of using the coke as fuel whilered-hot. The charge from the retorts is drawn into a wrought-iron carriage,and immediately taken to those furnaces which require feeding. He informsme, that…
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