by Friedrich Christian Accum · Alpha Edition · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789361474262
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«A Practical Treatise on Gas-light» is Friedrich Christian Accum's technical treatise on gas lighting, published by Alpha Edition in paperback (100 pages, in English).
Accum describes the apparatus and machinery suitable for lighting streets, houses, and factories with carbureted hydrogen or coal gas. The work reviews the utility, safety, and general characteristics of this new branch of civil economy.
2024 edition; the text has been reformatted, reset, and designed, not derived from scans of the original work.
For readers interested in the history of technology and engineering, and in the origins of urban lighting.
