A Practical Treatise on Gas-light

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Friedrich Christian Accum. A Practical Treatise on Gas-light

A Practical Treatise on Gas-light

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ERRATA

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER:

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATION

INFLUENCE. OF. THE PROGRESS OF THE ARTS. UPON THE. MORALS AND CONDITION OF MAN

PART I

PRODUCTION. OF. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT; AND. THEORY. OF THE. ACTION OF CANDLES AND LAMPS

METHOD. OF. ASCERTAINING THE ILLUMINATING POWER. OF. CANDLES, LAMPS, GAS-LIGHTS, AND. OTHER LUMINOUS BODIES

FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. OF THE. MODE OF COMPUTING THE RELATIVE COST OR VALUE. OF. LIGHT, EMITTED BY MEANS OF. CANDLES, LAMPS, & OTHER BODIES

METHOD. OF INCREASING. THE LIGHT OF TALLOW CANDLES, AND TO OBVIATE THE. NECESSITY OF SNUFFING THEM

PART II

GAS-LIGHT

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION

THEORY. OF. THE COMBUSTION OF COAL. IN. ELUCIDATION OF THE NATURE AND PRODUCTION. OF. GAS LIGHT

SKETCH. OF. THE RISE AND PROGRESS. OF THE. DISCOVERY AND APPLICATION. OF. COAL-GAS, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROCURING. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

THEORY. OF. THE PRODUCTION OF GAS-LIGHT, AND. DESCRIPTION. OF. A PORTABLE APPARATUS. FOR EXHIBITING, IN THE SMALL WAY, THE GENERAL. NATURE OF THIS SPECIES OF LIGHT

UTILITY. OF THE. GAS-LIGHT ILLUMINATION, WITH REGARD TO. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ECONOMY

OTHER. PRODUCTS OBTAINABLE FROM COAL: NAMELY, COKE, TAR, ESSENTIAL OIL, &c

TABULAR VIEW,

DESCRIPTION. OF. THE GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS

PLATE I

PLATE II

PLATES III.IV.V

PLATE VI

PLATE VII

METHOD of correcting the relative pressure of the Gasometer, so as to cause the gas which it contains to be uniformly of an equal density.[42]

DIRECTIONS TO WORKMEN. ATTENDING. THE GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS[43]

ESTIMATE. OF. THE PRICE. OF. A GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS, IF ERECTED IN LONDON,

LONDON Price List of the most essential articles[44] employed in the erection of a Gas-Light apparatus

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Friedrich Christian Accum

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Who among the ancients would have listened to the extraordinary scheme of writing books with such rapidity, that one man, by this new art, should perform the work of twenty thousand amanuenses? What philosopher would have given credit to the daring project of navigating the widest ocean?—or imagined the astonishing effect of gun-powder—or the extended application of the steam engine? What mortal would have dared to dive to the bottom of the sea—or to soar aloft into the air—or bid defiance to the thunder of the clouds? Discoveries which have changed, as it were, the course of human affairs, and the effects of which have already carried the intellectual operations of the human mind, to a height they could by no other means have attained. The men of those early ages, in the confidence of their own wisdom, might have derided these discoveries as impossible, or rejected them as visionary; but to those, who enjoy the full effects of such, and numerous other successful inventions, it becomes a duty to reason upon different principles, and to exert all means in their power to give effect to the progress of useful knowledge.

The artificial production and supply of light during the absence of the sun, unquestionably holds a distinguished rank among the most important arts of civilized life.

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