Gas lights
Date
1815
Creator
Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834, German/British) , Publisher
Object type
Library reference
24198
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 135mm
width (print): 230mm
width (print): 230mm
Subject
Description
Ten figures of decorative gaslights for domestic use. With details of stopcocks and ball and socket joints.
Plate 3 from A practical treatise on gas-light; exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories by Frederick Accum (London, R Ackermann, 1815).
The accompanying text states that: “PLATES III. IV AND V. exhibit such designs of different kinds of gas-lamps, chandeliers, lustres, candelabras, &c. as are already in use in this Metropolis”.
Inscribed above: “Pl.III, facing page 115’. Inscribed below: “London, Pub. April 1 1815, at R. Ackermann’s, 101 Strand.”
Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838), his name anglicised to Frederick Accum, was a German chemist best-known for his interest in the introduction of gas lighting to London. He was employed briefly at the Royal Institution at the same time as Humphry Davy.
Plate 3 from A practical treatise on gas-light; exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories by Frederick Accum (London, R Ackermann, 1815).
The accompanying text states that: “PLATES III. IV AND V. exhibit such designs of different kinds of gas-lamps, chandeliers, lustres, candelabras, &c. as are already in use in this Metropolis”.
Inscribed above: “Pl.III, facing page 115’. Inscribed below: “London, Pub. April 1 1815, at R. Ackermann’s, 101 Strand.”
Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838), his name anglicised to Frederick Accum, was a German chemist best-known for his interest in the introduction of gas lighting to London. He was employed briefly at the Royal Institution at the same time as Humphry Davy.
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