The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 221
l if ap-plied to a single light. To this succeeded another form, which isexceedingly beautiful, and appears to be the perfection of lamp ven-tilation. It is in fact, a beautiful application of the principle of adescending draught to a lamp burner. The gas-light has its glasschimney as usual, but… … Fig. 1.—a, is the burner; b, the gas pipe leading to the burner ; c, the glassholder, with an aperture in it opening into the mouth-piece rf, which isattached to the metal chimney, i; e, the ordinary glass chimney ; /, anouter cylinder of glass closed at the top by a plate of mica, g, or…
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