[Apparatus for collecting gas from coal, for use in lighting]

Name:

Parkes, Samuel (1828-1885)

Date:

1808

Identifier:

QD30 P24 1808 TP

Provenance:

John E. Benson (signature)

Subject:

Brick or Stone; Lamps; Furnaces (Stove, Oven); Gasometer (Gazometer); Retorts; Laboratories

Form/Genre:

Wood Engravings

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Apparatus described on pp.537-539. A cast-iron retort sits in the furnace to the right; tubes convey hydrogen gas to the gasometer and then to the lamps.; Print

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)