Capable of affording, every 24 hours, Light equal to 40,000 Tallow Candles, six in the pound, burning one hour.
| £. | s. | |
|---|---|---|
| Gasometer, to contain 10,000 cubic feet of gas | 236 | 0 |
| Wheel-work, regulating chain, ballance-weight for ditto, with wooden framing | 160 | 11 |
| Wrought iron cistern for gasometer—36 feet wide, 24 feet long and 16 feet deep | 500 | 0 |
| (It would weigh about 16 tons.) | ||
| Wooden framing built around it, to secure ditto | 150 | 0 |
| Condenser, cistern and communicating pipes | 126 | 0 |
| Lime machine, made of cast iron plates | 82 | 0 |
| Gasometer-house, built of frame-work and weather-boarded | 250 | 0 |
| Twenty-four retorts set in brick-work, with furnaces for ditto, compleat | 336 | 0 |
| Sundries | 100 | 0 |
| £ 1940 | 11 | |
A gas-light apparatus complete for work, capable of affording every twenty-four hours a quantity of light equal to 1,400 Argand’s Lamps, each lamp equal in intensity to six candles, six in the pound, burning for five hours, will cost 3,500l. if erected in this metropolis.
LONDON Price List of the most essential articles[44] employed in the erection of a Gas-Light apparatus.
[44] All the articles are warranted to be perfect and of the best kind. They are delivered free of expence at any wharf between London and Westminster-bridge.
| Sheet-iron pipes brazed. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | ||||||||
| 1⁄4 | inch in diameter | 0 | 4 | a foot | - | in 15 to 18 feet lengths. | |||
| 3⁄8 | ditto | 0 | 4 | ditto | |||||
| 1⁄2 | ditto | 0 | 5 | ditto | |||||
| 5⁄8 | ditto | 0 | 6 | ditto | |||||
| 3⁄4 | ditto | 0 | 6 | 1⁄2 | ditto | ||||
| 7⁄8 | ditto | 7 | ditto | ||||||
| 1 | inch, ditto | 0 | 7 | 1⁄2 | ditto | ||||
| 1 | 1⁄4 | ditto | 0 | 9 | ditto | ||||
| 1 | 1⁄2 | ditto | 0 | 10 | 1⁄2 | ditto | |||
| 1 | 3⁄4 | ditto | 0 | 11 | ditto | ||||
| 2 | inch, ditto | 1 | 1 | 1⁄2 | ditto | ||||
| 2 | 1⁄4 | ditto | 1 | 4 | ditto | ||||
| 2 | 1⁄2 | ditto | 1 | 5 | ditto | ||||
| 3 | inch, ditto | 1 | 6 | 1⁄2 | ditto | ||||
| Copper pipes brazed 1⁄4 inch | 0 | 4 | per foot | ||||||
| Ditto, ditto, ditto 3⁄8 inch | 0 | 5 | 1⁄2 | ditto | |||||
| Gas-light cockspur burners with stop-cock 2s 6d to 3s 6d | |||||||||
| Argand’s lamps, with glass-holders, from 3s to 4s 6d | |||||||||
| Cast-iron retorts, weighing 7 cwt. at 15s 6d per cwt | £5 | 8 | 6 |
| Mouth-piece for ditto, compleat | 1 | 14 | 8 |
| Cast-iron door frames for retort furnace | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Furnace bars 10s. per cwt. | |||
| Sheet iron for gazometer (No. 23) 24s. per cwt. | |||
| Gazometer chains, 5d per lb. | |||
| Ballance weights [Plates] for gazometer, 9l 10s per ton. | |||
| Cast-iron cistern plates | |||
| ----------------------- smaller size for lime machine, 18l per ton. | |||
| ----------------------- middling size for tar cistern, 16l ditto | |||
| ----------------------- largest size for gazometer cistern 14l ditto | |||
| Cast-iron flanch pipes | 2 | - | inch diameter, at | 5s | per yd. in | 6 | feet lengths | ||
| ditto | 3 | ditto | 6s | ditto | 6 | ditto | |||
| ditto | 4 | ditto | 8s | 6d | ditto | 9 | ditto | ||
| ditto | 5 | ditto | 10s | ditto | 9 | ditto | |||
| ditto | 6 | ditto | 12s | ditto | 9 | ditto | |||
| ditto | 7 | ditto | 13s | 6d | ditto | 9 | ditto | ||
| ditto | 8 | - | 11l. 5s. per ton | 9 | ditto | ||||
| ditto | 9 | ||||||||
| ditto | 10 | ||||||||
| ditto | 11 | ||||||||