Patent Model - Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas
Maker and role
William Beaumont, Patentee
Production date
Jun 15 1858
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Brass
Measurements
3 1/2 x 4 x 2 1/2" (8.9 x 10.2 x 6.4cm)
Description
Beaumont's patent for making coal-gas describes his improvements as "in combination with the retort, the series of longitudinal flues H, J, K, and their communicating passages g, m, n when arranged substantially". (Patent Number 20,541)
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Object number
2015.14.232a-d
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