Capital centre ornament for a flower-garden — Gasworks in full swing. The object in the middle of the garden is a gasometer for the storage of coal gas, gas that was used for lighting manufactured from coal. Source: Fun (27 March 1878): 130. Click on image to enlarge it. — George P. Landow
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