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Expand 1 - Ancestors and the Gas Industry1 - Ancestors and the Gas Industry
Expand 2 - History of the Gas Industry2 - History of the Gas Industry
Expand 3 - The History of Gasmaking II3 - The History of Gasmaking II
Expand 4 - The History of Gasmaking III4 - The History of Gasmaking III
Collapse 5 - History of gas making IV5 - History of gas making IV
1 - Coal truck arriving/departing at Aylestone Road (?)
2 - Titile page of 'Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas'
3 - Map of Parish of Birmingham showing Soho Manufactory
4 - Drawing of early gas holders in Chester/Westminster (Birmingham ??)etc
5 - Gas Holder above ground at Colwall
6 - Cast iron column of gas holder at St Pancras
7 - Waterless holder at Staines
8 - Drawing of telescopic holder and guide frames
9 - Holders at Nechells, Birmingham
10 - Holders - spiral guided showing guide rail and rollers
11 - Holders - 'South Metropolitan Gas Co.', Old Kent Road
12 - Holder frame at St Pancras
13 - Holders at St Pancras
14 - Holders - spiral guided at Fulham
15 - Holders - Accum's early pattern
16 - Modern gasmaking plant - type unknown
17 - Modern gasmaking plant - type unknown
18 - Holder - crown under construction
19 - Cross section of a single lift holder
20 - Waterless holder - Coventry
21 - Showroom council house, Birmingham
22 - Gas showroom
23 - Drawing of the Imperial gasholder for the Imperial Co at Hackney and Bromley
24 - Drawing of Gas holders - Manhattan
25 - Helston gasholder - site of old works
26 - St Pancras gas holder
27 - Drawing of the Birmingham holder - probably the first
28 - Holder - Heston
29 - Drawing of holder at Chester
30 - Holder at Fulham - spiral guided
31 - Holder at Fulham - spiral guided
32 - Coal test works - Nechells, Birmingham
33 - Drawing of a gas laboratory - Fulham(?)
34 - Drawing of a gas laboratory - Fulham(?)
35 - Evans photometer
36 - Nechells - Central laboratories Analysis and testing at (portion) - CGBD
37 - Title page giving a description of early apparatus
38 - Table of of gas analysis for coal gases from various coal sources
39 - Table of the properties of gases from various coal sources
40 - Drawing of test apparatus - Letheby photometer, model specified by the gas works clauses act of 1871
41 - Argand burners
42 - Bunsen photometer
43 - Early wet meter
44 - Standard Argand lamp
45 - Rumford's photometer
46 - Test apparatus - standard 10 candle Argand etc
47 - Photometers - Gas Referee's and Imperial Standard
48 - Advertisment for William Sugg's testing apparatus
49 - Cornu-Le Chatelier pyrometer
50 - No 2 Metropolitan Standard Argand burner
51 - Referee's standard burners for 14 & 16 and 18 candle gas
52 - Letherby photometer
53 - Schematic of a Canadian Government photomemter
54 - Evans 1858 model photometer
55 - Cast iron work on Fulham holder
56 - The original Evans photometer
57 - The improved Edinburgh photometer
58 - Drawings of the Erdmann Gas Prover
59 - Drawings of the Erdmann Gas Prover
60 - Drawing of Bunsen's photometer
61 - Evans 1858 model photometer
62 - Bromley - CRG Plant - upper deck
63 - Bromley - CRG Plant - upper deck
64 - Bromley - CRG Plant
65 - Bromley - CRG Plant
66 - Bromley - CRG Plant
67 - Series of solid fuel Lacashire boilers and stoker
68 - Plaque on Fulham holder by Gas Light and Coke Company 1948
69 - Plaque on Fulham holder by Gas Light and Coke Company 1948
70 - Holder - Imperial Gas Lighting Co., Fulham
71 - Holder - Fulham - part view of cast iron columns
72 - Holder - Fulham - cast iron guide column
73 - Holder - Fulham - part view of cast iron columns
74 - Birmingham - Windsor Street - view of column guided gas holders
75 - 1st tank farm/stores behind - ? Alston Road ? MRS ?
76 - Solihull - MRS - Hydrogen plant
77 - First satisfactory three lift holder
78 - Manhattan gas plant - holders
79 - Drawing of telescopic spiral giuded holder
Expand 6 - The History of Gasmaking I6 - The History of Gasmaking I

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