Gas light burners mb-code RS-10518 Front elevation of the Society

Front elevation of the Society of Arts building in John Adam Street

Pupue ou Hupe

'Extremes Meet'

Joseph Barber was the proprietor and wharfinger

Gas light burners mb-code RS-10518 Front elevation of the SocietyPlate 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.