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Expand 1 - Ancestors and the Gas Industry1 - Ancestors and the Gas Industry
Collapse 2 - History of the Gas Industry2 - History of the Gas Industry
1 - British Gas Midlands Research Station - title slide
2 - An Interval - title slide
3 - Murdock's house, Redruth
4 - Philippe Le Bon - a print
5 - Frederick Albert Winsor - portrait - artist unknkown
6 - Lighting by Philippe le Bon
7 - Murdoch's estimate of cost of gas lighting
8 - Horizontal retorts - charging
9 - Scientists at the Royal Institute
10 - Boulton & Watts Soho Manufactory
11 - Boulton & Watts Soho Manufactory
12 - Portrait of Samuel Clegg
13 - Watt's house
14 - Statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch
15 - William Murdoch
16 - Murdoch retorts in Soho factory
17 - Bust of William Murdoch
18 - Retort workmen
19 - Plaque at Murdoch's house in Redruth
20 - Murdock's house, Redruth
21 - Frederick Albert Winsor - portrait - artist unknkown
22 - Advert for Winsor's prospectus
23 - Map of Winsor's first pipe gas supply in London
24 - Street lighting - Pall Mall
25 - Winsor lecturing
26 - Winsor's advert in the 'Times'
27 - Quotation of Philippe le Bon
28 - A drawing and description in French
29 - First page of a paper/book by Philippe le Bon
30 - Philippe Le Bon - a print
31 - First page of a paper/book by Philippe le Bon
32 - Lighting by Philippe le Bon
33 - Means to employ combustible materials usefully
34 - Birth place of Philippe le Bon
35 - Account of the Application of of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes
36 - John Clayton fills a bladder with the "spirit of coals"
37 - Page of an book describing the experiment in BG/BGC/MRS/RGC/X/P/2/36
38 - First page of desciption of Clayton's discovery of methane in stream near Wigan
39 - Ince Hall near Wigan
40 - Bottom part of page describing Thomas Shirley's experiments
41 - Top part of page describing Thomas Shirley's experiments
42 - Gas Chronology
43 - Up-river collier "Sir David"
44 - Solihull gas works - OS map
45 - Solihull - Retort House
46 - Letter from John Broadway, Surveyer of the highways
47 - Four gas holders
48 - Woodall-Duckham retort house
49 - A modern gas works entrance
50 - A sketch showing Naphtha as an illuminant
51 - Purifier with apparatus for lifting lid
52 - Purifiers being filled
53 - Advertisement for small gas manufacturing plant
54 - Birmingham - Windsor Street - view of gasworks
55 - A UK map of coal supply
56 - Schematic diagram of a gas works
57 - Drawing of small gas manufacturing plant
58 - Portrait of Baron Auer von Welsbach
59 - Gas lighting public buildings - chandelier
60 - Experimental gas lighting
61 - Experimental gas lighting
62 - Gas lighting in a theatre
63 - Pre gas oil lamps - Birmingham
64 - Gas lighting in streets
65 - Gas lighting - homes
66 - Advertisement for the Liverpool Gas-Light Company
67 - Gas lighting in homes
68 - Gas lighting - evolution of burners
69 - Gas lighting - evolution of burners
70 - Gas lighting - burners
71 - Gas lighting - public buildings
72 - Gas lighting - homes
73 - Gas lighting - homes
74 - Gas works scene
75 - Some pioneers of the gas industry
76 - Horizontal retorts
77 - Horizontal retorts - charging
78 - Gas personnel
79 - Horizontal retorts - drawing
80 - Title slide
81 - Focussing slide
82 - Focussing slide
83 - Title slide
84 - Retirement of H L G Boot
85 - BGS-Gas de France meeting, MRS, Solihull
86 - BGS-Gas de France meeting, MRS, Solihull
87 - Tower purifiers
88 - Coke loading
89 - Drawing of early gas works for mansions, villages etc
90 - Gas history - cookers - Sharp's cooker
91 - Gas lighting/ventilating - Sunburner
92 - Last slide
93 - Gas manufacture - map if Soho works, Birmingham
94 - British Gas Science Services Panel
95 - Professor J P Minkelers
96 - Mechanical billing
97 - Gas heating - bath
98 - Gas heating - cookers - Ricketts cooker
99 - List of gas works, London
100 - Gas Lighting - a comparison of Argand and Welsbach burners
101 - Beehive burner
102 - Vertical oven
103 - Application of gas - Curzon laundry, Acton
104 - Gas History - byproducts
105 - Gas account, Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company
106 - Gas holder, St Pancras
107 - Advertisement from Gas Light and Coke Company
108 - Advertising poster - gas lighting
109 - Horizontal retorts - hand charging
110 - Boston Spa, Yorkshire - gas holder
111 - Boston Spa, Yorkshire gas works
112 - Purifiers - box type
113 - Purifiers - box type
114 - Horizontal retorts - double ended
115 - Ancillary plant - outside
Expand 3 - The History of Gasmaking II3 - The History of Gasmaking II
Expand 4 - The History of Gasmaking III4 - The History of Gasmaking III
Expand 5 - History of gas making IV5 - History of gas making IV
Expand 6 - The History of Gasmaking I6 - The History of Gasmaking I

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