| Description | Gas Lighting Apparatus (13 items).
812. Wormald Gott & Wormald, Leeds. Apr. 1806, Dec. 1808, Jul.-Sep. 1810, Oct., Dec. 1811. 13 items.
Gas lighting apparatus.
"Wormald Gott & Wormald, Park Mill, nr. Leeds" - memorandum with sketch plans and elevations describing lights, pipes etc. required, Apr. 1806 (2 sheets); plan of Park Mill showing proposed retorts, gasometers, pipes etc., Apr. 1806.
Longitudinal and cross-sections and plans of retorts, "Plan of the Photogenous Apparatus" (showing retorts, gasometer etc.), longitudinal section of the gasometer pit, cross-section showing upright main pipes etc., cross-section of the gasometer and condenser pits - reverse drawings marked "Burley Mill", Dec. 1808. These drawings bear letter codes.
Plan of the retorts and gasometer pits, section of retort and gasometer pit (with cross-section of the gasometer house on the back) - reverse drawings, Jul. 1810; notes and sketches sent to the Foundry of orders - pipes and cisterns, retort bodies, gasometer marked "Park Mill" (4 sheets of notes); rough list of gas lighting orders [?] 1808-1815.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' Nos. 597, 640. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 190.
For Wormald Gott & Wormald. Park Mill and Burley Mill, near Leeds, Yorkshire.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (Gas Lighting Papers)
Published references: Tann, p. 134 - sections and plans of retorts, 1808. |