engraving antique from 1878 industrial type
engraving in period colors published around 1850 by Hippolyte Lucas. To frame, alone or successively with other copies of the series for a loft and industrial decoration. engraving genuine for collectors. It is entitled: "Manufacture, purification and distribution of illuminating gas". Originally, illuminating gas meant coal gas, so named by its inventor William Murdoch because it was intended for lighting (gas light). The idea of lighting by means of a gas is traditionally attributed to Philippe Lebon in France, and to Jan Pieter Minckelers in Holland. By extension, the term illuminating gas refers to the technique for lighting from a gas such as coal gas, natural gas, dihydrogen, methane, propane, butane and acetylene.
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Dimensions: 22 x 52 cms
engraving published previously folded by the publisher at the time. Some foxing, small stains or small consultation accidents. Please take a good look at the photos.
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