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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
Collapse 3 - The History of Gasmaking II3 - The History of Gasmaking II
1 - West's manual charging and drawing machines
2 - Fiddes Aldridge stoking machine - Fulham
3 - Multiple horizontal retorts in operation
4 - West's compressed air drawing and charging machines
5 - Horizontal retort house - sketch by D Mapherson
6 - Fiddes Aldridge auto/machine chargers - drawing
7 - Fiddes-Aldridge discharging-charger
8 - Fiddes-Aldridge charging machine - Adderley Street works
9 - Machine chargers - Drakes pusher
10 - Newton Stewart - retorts
11 - Horizontal retort benches charging side
12 - Beckton - filling fires
13 - Newton Stewart - retorts - glory hole open
14 - Horizontal retort benches charging side
15 - Newton Stewart - single arch 6 retort
16 - Newton Stewart - coke discharge
17 - Beckton - filling fires
18 - Newton Stewart - glory hole open
19 - Newton Stewart - retort being discharged
20 - Newton Stewart - retort being discharged
21 - Newton Stewart - open hot retort, alight
22 - Newton Stewart - siphon pump
23 - Newton Stewart - charged retort
24 - Drawing of horizontal settings - different heating arrangments
25 - Kensal Green - inclined retorts
26 - Modern retort house - horizontals
27 - Retorts Westminster and City of London
28 - Westminster Station - retorts
29 - Drawing of horizontal setting with air recuperator
30 - Fiddes Aldridge stoking machine - Fulham
31 - Drawing of early cross sections of horizontal retorts
32 - Drawing of horizontal setting with air recuperator
33 - Compressor/exhauster by W C Holmes
34 - Drawing of early Beale, two- bladed exhauster
35 - Small electricall driven exhauster
36 - Humphreys & Glasgow air blowers
37 - Birmingham - Saltney - turbo-exhauster
38 - Birmingham - Swan Village - Exhauster/Power house
39 - Drawing of Waller pattern exhauster
40 - Newton Stewart - governor
41 - Drawing of exhauster control
42 - Drawing of 24hr automatic changer for governor
43 - Drawing of W C Cowan's Governor
44 - Drawing of pressure recorder
45 - Drawing of Sevvier's improved pattern governor
46 - Drawing of Sevvier's improved pattern governor
47 - Newton Stewart - governor
48 - Vertical retorts - retort house, Windsor Street(?)
49 - Vertical retorts - Glover-West design section through retort house
50 - Vertical retorts - Woodall-Duckham system
51 - Vertical retorts - Kingston Isle of Wight
52 - Vertical retorts - Netchells, Birmingham
53 - Vertical retorts - gas offtake
54 - Horizontal retort setting - Langholm
55 - Horizontal retorts - regenerator settings
56 - Horizontal settings - different heating arrangments
57 - Horizontal retorts - close inspection, hot retort for fracture/leakage (?)
58 - Horizontal retort - open - Newton Stewart
59 - Table of by-products - coke and gas
60 - Table of by-products - coke, gas and liquor
61 - Table of by-products - coke
62 - List of gas works in London
63 - Schematic map of England, Scotland and Wales
64 - Graph comparing daily gas consumption in 1899 and 1952
65 - Graph comparing daily gas consumption in 1899 and 1952
66 - Block diagram of theoretical carbon gasification scheme
67 - Slagging gasifier
68 - W C Holmes and Co early gas works
69 - Air type condensers, air type
70 - Condenser/scrubber/purifier
71 - Condensers - ancient and modern
72 - Water cooled condenser
73 - Annular condenser
74 - Condenser and washer - Swan Village works
75 - Annular condenser
76 - Washers - indoors
77 - Exhauster/booster
78 - Gas compression
79 - Gas washing and purification
80 - Static washers
81 - Rotary washer/scrubber
82 - W C Holmes and Co early gas works
83 - W C Holmes and Co early gas works
84 - Condenser/purifier/scrubber for works supplying 400 to 800 burners
85 - Purifiers boxes, for a small works
86 - Purification - Stretford plant process
87 - Purification - Stretford plant process
88 - Purifiers boxes, for a small works
89 - Purification - Mr Malam's lime machine
90 - Purification - early type of Murdoch limewater with paddle
91 - Purification - pile of spent oxide
92 - Vertical retorts - coke extraction boxes, Woodall-Duckham - Nechell's works
93 - Purifiers - Walkers arrangement with centre valve
94 - Purifiers - 4 boxes in series rotation
95 - London companies supplying gas 1910-1925
96 - Carburetted water gas system by Humphreys & Glasgow
97 - Automatic carburetted water gas plant - operating stage
98 - Lurgi gasifier
99 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - 3/4" service in stone duct
100 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - recovered service fittings
101 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - wall bracket and fittings
102 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - holder tank and couterpoise
103 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - holder tank and couterpoise
104 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - 1" forged socket "Russell"
105 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - 2" C.I. service main (recovered)
106 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - 2" C.I. service with vertical riser
107 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - remains of gas lantern
108 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - remains of mill chimney (actually a twin)
109 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - holder tank stonework
110 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - holder tank/perimeter wall
111 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - holder tank/perimeter wall
112 - Dolphinholme, Lancashire - holder tank
113 - A sketch showing Naphtha as an illuminant
114 - Horizontal retort setting - Langholm
115 - Gas engine/alternator, 300 HP - Leicester?
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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