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Gas Lighting Collection (page 3)

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Incandescenza company, 1895. Artist: Mataloni, Giovanni (1869-1944)

Incandescenza company, 1895. Artist: Mataloni, Giovanni (1869-1944)
Incandescenza company, 1895. From a private collection

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown

Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA, c1900. View of Main Street showing one of the citys first gas street lamps in front of the St Charles Hotel, (originally the Bella Union Hotel)

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: One of the Advantages of Gas over Oil, 1821. Artist: Richard Dighton

One of the Advantages of Gas over Oil, 1821. Artist: Richard Dighton
One of the Advantages of Gas over Oil, 1821. Plate V of A London Nuisance, depicting a gas lamp exploding in the shop of I Killem, chemist, throwing debris over a passing lady and small child

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Rayon d or - Dernier mot de l Eclairage, 1895. Artist: Paleologue (Paleologu), Jean de (1855-1942)

Rayon d or - Dernier mot de l Eclairage, 1895. Artist: Paleologue (Paleologu), Jean de (1855-1942)
Rayon d or - Dernier mot de l Eclairage, 1895. From a private collection

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Bec Auer, 1896. Artist: Privat-Livemont, Henri (1861?1936)

Bec Auer, 1896. Artist: Privat-Livemont, Henri (1861?1936)
Bec Auer, 1896. From a private collection

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Early gas lighting advertisement label

Early gas lighting advertisement label

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: German gas mantle advertising label

German gas mantle advertising label

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893

Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893. Warners workshops, Spitalfields, East London. The weavers are working on hand looms and the weaving shed is lit by fishtail gas lights

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Bicycle manufacture, France, 1896

Bicycle manufacture, France, 1896. Shaping the wheel rims. The machinery is all driven from a central power source through belt-and-shafting

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: Gas lighting, 1814

Gas lighting, 1814. Fig. 1: Samuel Cleggs (1781-1861) gas apparatus (1808). Fig. 7: B Cooks gas apparatus. Figs 8&9: Furnace for producing tar as a gas by-product. From Encyclopaedia Londinensis

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: The Peace Illuminations - The Horse Guards, Whitehall Front, London, 1856

The Peace Illuminations - The Horse Guards, Whitehall Front, London, 1856. Gas light illuminations on Horse Guards, Whitehall, London, to mark the end of the Crimean War

Background imageGas Lighting Collection: The Tunnel, 1831. Artist: Henry Pyall

The Tunnel, 1831. Artist: Henry Pyall
The Tunnel, 1831. The worlds first passenger railway, the Liverpool and Manchester opened on 15 September 1830. Its principal engineer was George Stephenson (1781-1848)



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