Gas light burners Finish:Rolled with audience witnessing the draw

with audience witnessing the draw

The man is sharpening an item on his grinder which he is operating by foot

economy and utmost simplicity

Highgate Archway viaduct

Gas light burners Finish:Rolled with audience witnessing the drawPlate 3 from the Bakerian Lecture paper 'On the composition and analysis of the imflammable gaseous compounds resulting from the destructive distillation of coal and oil, with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers', by William Thomas Brande, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 11 28. Three figures showing an Argand burner (figures 1 and 2) and a rose burner (figure 3). Signed lower left 'Wm.