10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GASELIER»
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gaselier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are ...
1 of our illustrations represents in elevation the internal mechanism of a gaselier
constructed according to this invention, the fixed and movable outer casings
being indicated in dotted lines. The other figures represent detached parts of the
...
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... Descriptive Index of Patents Applied for and Patents ...
N° 2840. POTTS, William. — " Improvements in gaseliers." According to this
invention the rising and falling of the moveable part of the gaselier is effected by
a crewing motion. The lower part of the tube which conveys the gas and which is
fixed ...
Great Britain. Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft,
1868
This invention has for its object the suspending of the ordinary gaselier (which
generally has the moveable or sliding part supported by chains and balance-
weights) by so constructing the gaselicr that the rising and falling is produced
without ...
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The International Exhibition of 1862
compensating gas meter. [ 6356 ] VERITY, B., & SONS, 31 & 32 King Street, Oo'
uent Garden.—Gaseliers and brass works. The following chandeliers are
exhibited :— 1. LARGE EIGHT-LIGHT GAsELIER, designed by the late John
Thomas.
Anonymous, Cambridge University Press,
2014
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Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-century Interior
Refracting the gaselier: understanding Victorian responses to domestic gas
lighting Sarah Milan The invention of gas lighting was a dramatic innovation.
After centuries of people using costly and labour intensive candles and oil lamps
to light ...
Janet Floyd, Inga Bryden,
1999
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Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications : ...
The tubing, when uncoiled, allows the gaselier to be at its " extreme length, and
when coiled, the chandelier or gaselier is, " of course, at its shortest length, or
nearest the ceiling. The " coil being placed between the joists and above the
ceiling, ...
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Descriptive index [afterw.] Chronological and descriptive ...
Horizontal jets are disposed at suitable points of the gaselier for lighting the
apartment, while other horizontal jets are obtained by perforating the tubes at the
side, serving to display the design of the gaselier. Cut glass lenses or colored
glass ...
The too familiar ' gaselier' — a repulsive title in itself — illustrates compendiously
all the hideous vi- ciousness of false treatment and bad art. It will not seem trifling
to devote a little space to some principles which will be readily applied to ...
Edmund Hodgson Yates, William Tinsley, William Croft,
1871
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Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature
On a night when the moon is as bright as a gaselier watch the swarm of white
creatures flowing. Watch their calm direction. Watch the suffocating emotion
those creatures have. On a night when the moon is like a bright gaselier what a
doleful ...
Benjamin Cordrai, a plumber and gas-fitter, said he was a brother of the
deceased, and fixed up the gaselier, which had three jets and a long sliding tube
and inner tube. He did not tell his sister-in-law to fill it with water at any definite
time, ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GASELIER»
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Gallery: Kindred Spirits - Looking back at the day the Public Hall in …
... with ribs, and bands, each of the seven divisions being an elliptical dome from which was suspended a gaselier with sixteen jets'. «Ipswich Star, May 15»
'Spooky' Memphis mansion could bring new life to Victorian Village
They encircled the foyer as part of the cornice work. When the gaselier in the foyer was lit, it reflected from the faceted glass and created what ... «DeSoto Appeal, Sep 12»