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  • The Gas times.

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    • London, Hallows & Slaughter [etc.]
    • 1934-1985
    • 90 Items
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    Text 3-VOA (Gas times) v. 97 1963)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA (Gas times) v. 98 (1964)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA (Gas times) v. 99 (1965)Offsite
  • Gas journal; light, heat, power, bye-products [microform].

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    • London, T. G. Barlow [etc.]
    • 1849-present
    • 357 Items
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Gas journal) v. 347 (Oct.-Dec. 1971)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Gas journal) v. 347 (July-Sept. 1971)Offsite
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    Text *ZAN-V646 v. 349-351 (Jan.-Sept. 1972)Offsite
  • The lambent flame / John D. Keating.

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    • Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 75-666Offsite
  • Gaslighting in America : a guide for historic preservation / Denys Peter Myers.

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    • Washington : U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Technical Preservation Services Division : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 80-222Offsite
  • Theatre lighting in the age of gas / [by] Terence Rees.

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    • London : Society for Theatre Research, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWEP 80-925Offsite
  • Gaslighting in America : a guide for historic preservation / Denys Peter Myers.

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    • Washington : U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Technical Preservation Services Division : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 81-148Offsite
  • American gas journal. [microform]

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    • [Dallas, etc. Petroleum Engineer Pub. Co., etc.]
    • 1859-1970
    • 54 Items
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    Text *ZAN-V674 v. 203-206 (1976-79)Offsite
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    Text *ZAN-V674 v. 207-209 (1980-82)Offsite
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    Text *ZAN-V674 v. 210-211 (1983-84)Offsite
  • Lighting the town : a study of management in the North West gas industry, 1805-1880 / John F. Wilson.

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    • London : P. Chapman Pub. for British Gas plc North Western, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text JBE 92-777Offsite
  • Light without a wick : a century of gas-lighting, 1792-1892 : a sketch of William Murdoch, the inventor / [by the North British Association of Gas managers].

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    • Glasgow : R. Maclehose, 1892.
    • 1892
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSC 89-119Offsite
  • The Gas world.

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    • London, Benn Bros.
    • 1884-198
    • 105 Items
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    Text *ZAN-V735 v. 186-192, iss. 4745-4828 (1981-1987)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOL+ (Gas world) v. 194 (1989)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOL+ (Gas world) v. 195 (1990)Offsite
  • Gas age.

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    • [New York, etc., Harbrace Publications, etc.]
    • 1883-1969
    • 163 Items
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Gas age) v. 134 (1967)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Gas age) v. 135 (1968)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Gas age) v. 136 (1969)Offsite
  • Caricatures [graphic] / S. de Wilde Invt. et Fecit.

    • Still image
    • 1807-1809.
    • 1807-1809
  • Journal du gaz et de l'électricité.

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    • Paris : [s.n.], -1902.
    • 190-1902
    • 6 Items
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Journal du gaz et de l'électricité) Annee 20 (1900)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Journal du gaz et de l'électricité) Annee 21 (1901)Offsite
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    Text 3-VOA+ (Journal du gaz et de l'électricité) Annee 22 (1902)Offsite
  • Light without a wick, a century of gas-lighting, 1792-1892. A sketch of William Murdoch, the inventor.

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    • Glasgow, Printed at the University Press by R. Maclehose, 1892.
    • 1892
    • 1 Item

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    Text C-11 7661Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Memoria sulla illuminazione a gas dei teatri : e progetto di applicarla all' I. R. Teatro della Scala in Milano / del cavaliere Giovanni Aldini ...

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    • Milano : Dalla Società tipog. dei classici italiani, 1820.
    • 1820
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWEW [RBS] 97-737Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • A practical treatise on gas-light; exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy. By Frederick Accum.

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    • London, Printed by G. Hayden for R. Ackermann [etc.] 1815.
    • 1815
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOL (Accum, F. C. Practical treatise on gas-light)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • History of the processes of manufacture and uses of printing, gas-light, pottery, glass and iron, with numerous illustrations. From the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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    • New York, J. Bradburn, 1864.
    • 1864
    • 1 Item

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    Text 3-VBA (History of the processes of manufacture)Offsite
  • Daylight by night : a record of some of the modern installations of gas lighting in important thoroughfares in Great Britain / Compiled and published by the British Commercial Gas Association on the occasion of the Second International Congress of the International Commission on Illumination held in Great Britain September, 1931 ...

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    • London : [1931]
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text VEX (British Commercial Gas Association, London. Daylight by night)Offsite
  • Public lighting by gas and electricity. By W.J. Dibdin.

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    • London, The Sanitary Publishing Company, limited, 1902.
    • 1902
    • 1 Item

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    Text 3-VEX (Dibdin, W. J. Public lighting by gas and electricity)Offsite
  • The Chemistry of artificial light : including the history of wax, tallow, and sperm candles, and the manufacture of gas : their various illuminating powers compared with animal and vegetable oils : and a descriptive sketch of lamps and other apparatus.

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    • London ; Glasgow : Richard Griffin, Publishers to the University of Glasgow, 1860.
    • 1860
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VEX (Scoffern, J. Chemistry of artificial light)Offsite
  • A symposium on illumination.

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    • London, Chapman and Hall, ltd., 1935.
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
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    Text VEX (Symposium on illumination)Offsite
  • L'éclairage à incandescence par le gaz et les liquides gazéifiés / par P. Truchot.

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    • Paris : G. Carré et C. Naud, 1899.
    • 1899
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VEX (Truchot, P. Eclairage a incandescence)Offsite
  • Solar gas, made by a neat, simple and economical apparatus, patented by James Crutchett ...

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    • New York, J.W. Bell, 1848.
    • 1848
    • 1 Item
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    Text VEX (Burr & Brother, New York. Solar gas, made by a neat, simple and economical apparatus)Offsite
  • Indirekte Beleuchtung von Schul- und Zeichensälen mit Gas- und elektrischen Bogenlicht. Bericht über Versuche in München, erstattet von der auf Veranlassung des Deutschen Vereinsvon Gas- und Wasserfachmännern gebildeten Kommission.

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    • München, R. Oldenbourg, 1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VEX (Indirekte Beleuchtung von Schul- und Zeichensalen mit Gas- und elektrischen Bogenlicht)Offsite
  • The famous Pitner lighting system / Pitner Gasoline Lighting Co.

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    • Chicago : The Company, 1906.
    • 1906
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOK (Pitner Gasoline Lighting Company, Chicago. Famous Pitner lighting system)Offsite
  • 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 / by Fredrick Accum.

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    • London : T. Boys, 1819.
    • 1819
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOL (Accum, F. C. Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas)Offsite
  • A practical treatise on gas-light; exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy.

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    • London, Printed by Davies and Michael for R. Ackermann, 1815.
    • 1815
    • 1 Item

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    Text 3-VOL (Accum, F. C. Practical treatise on gas-light)Offsite
  • Traité pratique de l'éclairage par le gaz inflammable, contenant une description sommaire de l'appareil et du mécanisme employé pour l'illumination des rues, des maisons et des manufactures ... Traduit de l'anglais sur la 3e édition de M. Accum; publié et augmenté par F.A. Winsor. Orné de huit planches.

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    • Paris, Chez l'auteur [and] Neveu, 1816.
    • 1816
    • 1 Item

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    Text VOL (Accum, F. C. Traité pratique- de l'éclairage)Offsite
  • Lecture delivered at the centenary celebration of the first commercial gas company to sell gas as an illuminant, held at the Franklin institute, Philadelphia, Pa., April 18th and 19th, 1912, ed. and pub. by the American gas institute, New York city.

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    • [Easton, Pa. : Press of the Chemical publishing compnay, 1912].
    • 1912
    • 1 Item

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  • The American practice of gas piping and gas lighting in buildings, by Wm. Paul Gerhard.

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    • New York, McGraw publishing company, 1908.
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOL (Gerhard, W. P. American practice of gas piping)Offsite
  • The distribution of gas, by Walter Hole.

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    • London, J. Allan & Co. 1912.
    • 1912
    • 1 Item

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    Text 3-VOL (Hole, W. Distribution of gas)Offsite
  • An historical sketch of the origin, progress, & present state of gas-lighting. By William Matthews ...

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    • London, R. Hunter, 1827.
    • 1827
    • 1 Item

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    Text VOL (Matthews, W. Historical sketch of the origin)Offsite
  • Gas manufacture and lighting.

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    • London, 1910.
    • 1910
    • 1 Item

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    Text VOL (O'Connor, H. Gas manufacture and lighting)Offsite
  • The theory and practice of gas-lighting : in which is exhibited an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the science, and the theories of light, combustion, and formation of coal, with descriptions of the most approved apparatus for generating, collecting, and distributing, coal-gas for illuminating purposes / by T.S. Peckston ...

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    • London : Printed for Thomas and George Underwood ..., 1819.
    • 1819
    • 1 Item

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    Text VOL (Peckston, T. S. Theory and practice of gas-lighting)Offsite
  • The gas-consumer's guide: a handbook of instruction on the proper management and economical use of gas. With a full description of gas-meters, and directions for ascertaining the consumption by meter. On ventilation, etc.

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    • Boston, A. Moore, 1871.
    • 1871
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOL (Richards, W. Gas-consumer's guide)Offsite
  • De l'éclairage au gaz ...

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    • Paris, Dunod, 1863.
    • 1863
    • 2 Items
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    Text 3-VOL (Hurcourt, E. R. d'. De l'éclairage au gaz) TextOffsite
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    Text 3-VOL (Hurcourt, E. R. d'. De l'éclairage au gaz) v. 2 (atlas)Offsite
  • L'éclairage à l'inca descence par le gaz. Ses applications à l'éclairage des villes, des chemins de fer et des cõtes. 127 figures dans le texte, 8 planches annexes.

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    • Paris, Publications Scientifiques et Économiques, 1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOL (Levy, P. Eclairage a l'inca descence par le gaz)Offsite
  • Handbuch für Holz- und Torfgas-Beleuchtung und einigen [sic] verwandten [sic] Beleuchtungsarten, von Dr. W. Reissig. Anhang zum Handbuche der Steinkohlengas-Beleuchtung von N.H. Schilling ...

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    • München, R. Oldenbourg, 1863.
    • 1863
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOL+ (Reissig, W. Handbuch fur Holz- und Torfgas-Beleuchtung und einigen)Offsite
  • Die angebliche Gefährlichkeit des Leuchtgases in Lichte statistischer Tatsachen. Mit 8 Abbildungen.

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    • München, R. Oldenbourg, 1906.
    • 1906-1906
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOL (Schaefer, F. Angebliche Gefahrlichkeit des Leuchtgases in Lichte statistischer Tatsachen)Offsite
  • Gas manufacture and utilization.

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    • London, British Gas Council [1945]
    • 1945
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOL (Smith, N. S. Gas manufacture and utilization)Offsite
  • Consolidated Gas Company vs. City of New York et al.

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    • [New York, 1907]
    • 1907
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOL (United States. Courts: Circuit Court Southern Dist. N.Y. Consolidated Gas Company vs. City of New York et al)Offsite
  • A letter to the Right Honourable, the Lord Provost, on the late fires, and their connection with gas illumination.

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    • Edinburgh, T. & W. Nelson, 1824.
    • 1824
    • 1 Item
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    Text CZ p.v. 73 no. 1-9Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Gas as an illuminating agent compared with electricity / by William T. Sugg.

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    • London : W. King, 1882.
    • 1882
    • 1 Item
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    Text OAI p.v. 283 no. 1-7Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Coston's sylvic gas light, for cities, factories, mills, hotels, churches, theatres, steamboats, private houses, &c.

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    • Boston : Printed by Beals & Greene, 1847.
    • 1847
    • 1 Item
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    Text OAI p.v. 307 no. 1-5Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The advantages of gas as an illuminant, with a few hints on gas burners, and the ease and economy of cooking and heating by gas ... by Robert B. Taber, A.M.

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    • [New Bedford, Mass., 1879]
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
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    Text OAI p.v. 330 no. 1-4Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The Gas meter and the apparatus used in the manufacture of coal gas : illustrated and explained...To which is added a brief sketch of the early history and progress of gas lighting in England, and observations on the generation of illuminating gas.

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    • Cincinnati : Printed by J. Ernst, 1853.
    • 1853
    • 1 Item
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    Text PKR p.v. 142 no. 1-6Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Practical directions for electric gas-lighting and ... bell-fitting for amateurs / by Edward Trevert. Illustrated.

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    • Lynn, Mass. : Bubier Pub. Co., 1907, c1901.
    • 1907-1901
    • 1 Item
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    Text VBA p.v. 529 no. 1-4Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Hill's air-light. A concise statement, of its history, theory, chemical relations, mechanical appliances, illuminating power, and economy ... by L.L. Hill.

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    • Troy, Troy Daily Whig Steam Press, 1859.
    • 1859
    • 1 Item
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    Text VBA p.v. 1204 no. 1-8Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Rule and regulations of the Troy Gas Light Company ...

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    • [Troy] Off. of the Co., 1855.
    • 1855
    • 1 Item
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  • ...Philippe Lebon, inventeur du gaz declairage; preface de Jérome Tharaud...et Jean Tharaud.

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    • Paris, Les Publications techniques, 1943.
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
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