"Gasometer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interesting surface trials were arranged with great care by Mr. Walker. An old boiler flue was placed vertically, and closed at top by means of a removable wooden cover, the interior space being about 72 cubic feet. A temporary gasometer had been arranged at a suitable distance by means of a paraffin cask having a capacity of 6 cubic feet suspended inside a larger cask, and by this means the boiler was charged with a highly explosive mixture of gas and air in the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various
... at the bottom of a gasometer," answered Joe; "leastwise he was there this afternoon—an' a dirty place ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... you want a light or a fire? Nothing can be simpler; make a hole in the ground, the gas escapes, and you apply a match. That is a natural gasometer within the reach ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... to find the amount for this quarter you would add together the remainder of the hundred thousand (2150) and the 3175, and get 5325, the real record. But I guess you've had arithmetic enough for the present, so we'll go out now and see the gasometer, or ...
— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous |
