| Description | Gas Lighting Apparatus (17 items).
804. Philips & Lee, Salford. Jul. 1803, Sep.-Nov. 1805, Mar., May 1806, Jul., Sep. 1810. 18 items.
Gas lighting apparatus.
Letter from Philips & Lee dated Manchester, 19 Jul. 1803, describing experiments with lighting and progress with gasometers, retorts and pipes (in George Lee's hand).
Plan of part of Old Mill yards etc., 14 Sep. 1805, showing proposed locations of gasometers and retorts, connection to the New Mill etc.; plan and section of the New Mill, 14 Sep. 1805, showing floors, pipes etc, engine house for engine "Ixion"; section of New Mill [?]showing floors, pillars, location of lights [?] (not dated or titled, circa Sep. 1805?); plan of two floors of the New Mill [?] showing location of pipes and lights etc., with sketches of pipes, burners etc. and list of items required on the same sheet (not dated, circa Sep. 1805?); sketch plan of yard and smiths' shop and retorts, with gasometers pencilled in (not dated, circa Oct. 1805?).
Gas trap - reverse drawing, Oct. 1805; sketch section of air retort, Nov. 1805 (not coded); sketch plan of air pipes connecting gasometers and retorts - reverse drawing, Nov. 1805; plan and sections of gasometer - reverse drawing, Mar. 1806; sections and plan of square gasometers and retorts etc. - coloured original and reverse drawings, Mar. 1806 (the original drawing has an alternative plan of the gasometers stuck on); sections and plan of gasometers etc. - reverse drawing, May 1806; plans and sections of small retort - coloured reverse drawings, May 1808. All these drawings except the air retort bear letter codes.
Sketches and notes on retorts, pipes, mouths, traps etc., sent to the Foundry Jul. & Sep. 1810 (2 small sheets stuck together); retort crane - coloured drawing; link for gasometer chain; drawing of method of attaching pipes and burner etc. to metal beams in the New Mill [?], with sketch of arch on the same sheet.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 546. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 190.
For Philips & Lee. Cotton mills, Salford, Lancashire.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (Gas Lighting Papers). |