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Aether Inhalers. Manufacturer's catalogue, 1885.

Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. Engraving, after 1861.

Geography: a mirage in a marsh. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.

A portable device used to counteract poisonous gases, being carried on a man's back. Halftone.

Specification of Michael Linning : converting peat into fuel, and obtaining tar, gas, &c.

Gas, coal and electricity ephemera. Box 1.

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Geography: a mirage in a marsh. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Aether Inhalers. Manufacturer's catalogue, 1885.

Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. Engraving, after 1861.

Specification of Michael Linning : converting peat into fuel, and obtaining tar, gas, &c.

Gas, coal and electricity ephemera. Box 1.