An Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress, & Present State of Gas-lightingR. Hunter, 1827 - 434 pages |
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Page vi
... Soho . This remarkable illumination was the first public display of the kind in this country , and at the time produced a very strong impres- sion upon the inhabitants of that populous town . Possibly it might have occasioned ...
... Soho . This remarkable illumination was the first public display of the kind in this country , and at the time produced a very strong impres- sion upon the inhabitants of that populous town . Possibly it might have occasioned ...
Page vii
... Soho is given on the authority of a gentleman who has long been a resident there , and intimately acquainted with the principal trans- actions and the persons named . Should any cir- cumstances really essential appear to be unnoticed ...
... Soho is given on the authority of a gentleman who has long been a resident there , and intimately acquainted with the principal trans- actions and the persons named . Should any cir- cumstances really essential appear to be unnoticed ...
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... Soho , * has the singular merit of being the person who first applied this * Soho , near Birmingham was an establishment as sin- gular in its kind as it was extensive and various in its objects . It may be denominated a kind of theatre ...
... Soho , * has the singular merit of being the person who first applied this * Soho , near Birmingham was an establishment as sin- gular in its kind as it was extensive and various in its objects . It may be denominated a kind of theatre ...
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... Soho foundry , near Birmingham , in 1798 , he con- structed an apparatus which enabled him to exhibit his plan on a larger scale than any he had heretofore attempted . Here his experiments were sedulously continued , with a view to ...
... Soho foundry , near Birmingham , in 1798 , he con- structed an apparatus which enabled him to exhibit his plan on a larger scale than any he had heretofore attempted . Here his experiments were sedulously continued , with a view to ...
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... Soho works on this occasion was one of extraordinary splendour . The whole front of that extensive range of build- ings was ornamented with a great variety of devices , that admirably displayed many of the varied forms of which the gas ...
... Soho works on this occasion was one of extraordinary splendour . The whole front of that extensive range of build- ings was ornamented with a great variety of devices , that admirably displayed many of the varied forms of which the gas ...
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A Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress, and Present State of Gas ... William Matthews No preview available - 2008 |
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