Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 216
l gas on a smallscale for private establishments, remote from sourcesof ordinary supply, is represented in the accompany- 200 GREAT FACTS. ing woodcut. The retort. A, is fitted in a small fur-nace. The coal is put in at F, and the products ofdistillation pass through the bent pipe, E. The… … The gas is then conveyed along another tube into thepurifier, H, filled with lime and water, and it thence GAS LIGHTING. 201 passes into the gas-holder. Tubes are inserted intothe latter for conveying the gas to the burners. The quantity and the quality of the gas yielded bycoal differ materially…
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