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Gas

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

    Whymper, Charles H., 1853-1941. | Reference: 46586i
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    Aether Inhalers. Manufacturer's catalogue, 1885.

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

    | Date: 1858 | Reference: 45513i
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    Mémoire d'hygiène publique : sur cette question: rechercher l'influence que peut exercer l'éclairage au gaz sur la santé des masses dans l'intérieur des villes? / par Évariste Bertulus.

    Bertulus, Évariste, 1809-1882. | Date: 1853
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    Specification of Michael Linning : converting peat into fuel, and obtaining tar, gas, &c.

    Linning, M. (Michael) | Date: 1857
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