Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets Houses, and Public Buildings / With Elevations, Sections, and Plans of the Most Improved Sorts of Apparatus Now Employed at the Gas Works in London and the Principal Provincial Towns of Great Britain; Accompanied With Comparative Estimates, Exhibiting the Most Economical Mode of Procuring This Species of Light

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Pl. II. Accums’, Description of Gas Works. to Face Title.
Mulholland Del t . W. Read, Sculp t . Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.
Gas Light Apparatus, Erected by Order of Government at THE ROYAL MINT , by Fredc k . Accum.
WITH SEVEN PLATES.
By FREDRICK ACCUM, OPERATIVE CHEMIST ,
Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, on Mineralogy, and on Chemistry applied to the Arts and Manufactures; Member o£ the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Limnæan Society, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.
London.
PRINTED FOR THOMAS BOYS. N o . 7. LUDGATE-HILL. (FROM N o . 3, PATERNOSTER ROW)
MDCCCXIX.
Compton Street, Soho.
The extraordinarily rapid progress which the recent invention of lighting with coal gas has made in this country, is perhaps without a parallel in the history of the useful arts.