The Early Gasometer
A note transcribed by Douglas
H. Shepard, September 2013
James Edward Alexander, Transatlantic Sketches (1833) Vol.II,
pp.138-141
Excerpt: In a small house on the banks of the stream
is the gasometer; a square reservoir for water has been dug under cover of a
roof; in this floats a large wooden box without a bottom; the gas rises in
this, and the weight of the box forces the gas into tubes, which distribute it
over the village.
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