 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1808 - 456 pages
...counting-houses and store-rooms, and the adjacent dwellinghouse of Mr. LEE, are lighted with the gas from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 2500 mould candles of six in the pound would give ; each of the candles, with which the comparison... | |
 | 1808 - 704 pages
...counting-houses and store-rooms, and the adjacent dwelling-house of Mr. Lee, are lighted with the gas frum coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which '2500 mould candles of six in the pound would give; each of the candles, with which the comparison... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 588 pages
...counting-houses, and stove rooms, and the adjacent dwelling-house of Mr. Lee, Sre now lighted with gas from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...been ascertained, by a comparison of shadows, to be ahout equal to the light which 2500 mould candles, of six to the pound, would give ; each of the candles... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1808 - 472 pages
...counting-houses and store-rooms, aud the adjacent dwelling-house of Mr. Lee, axe lighted" with the gas from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 2500 mould candles of six in the pound would give; each of the candles, with which the comparison was... | |
 | 1808 - 476 pages
...counting-houses and store-rooms, and the adjacent dwelling-house of Mr. Lee, are lighted with the gas from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 2500 mould candles of six in the pound would give; each of the candles, with which the comparison was... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1808 - 910 pages
...store-rooms, and the adjacent ***• dwelling-house of Mr. Lee, are lighted with the gas from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 2500 mould randies of six in the pound would give ; each of the candles, with which the comparison... | |
 | 1809 - 574 pages
...of 1807 and 8, where the light obtained by the combustion of gas, is used upon a very large scale. The total quantity of light used during the hours...comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 2,500 mould candles, of six in the pound, would give. The gas is distilled in large iron retorts, from... | |
 | 1810 - 928 pages
...ascertained, by a compa. i ¡Mm of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 3,500 mould candles of six in the pound would give ; each of the candles, with •which the comparison was made consuming at (he rate of 4-10ths of аи ounce (17ö grains) of tallow per hour. The quantity of light is necessarily... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1810 - 960 pages
...lighted with the gas from coal. 'I lie total quantity of light used during the hours of burning, lias been ascertained, by a comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which 2,500 mould candles of six in the pound would give : each of the candles, with •which the comparison... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pages
...and store-rooms, and the adjacent dwelling-houses of Mr. Lee, are lighted with the gass from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours...a comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the lights which 2500 mould candles of six to the pound would give ; each of the candles, with which the... | |
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Lee, are lighted with the gas from coal. The total quantity of light used during the hours of burning, has been ascertained, by a comparison of shadows, to be about equal to the light which... 
