Gas light burners mb-code RS-10518 'Extremes Meet'

'Extremes Meet'

Standing in the driver's seat of Bluebird

Joseph Barber was the proprietor and wharfinger

leads this flock of sheep over the hurdle

Gas light burners mb-code RS-10518 'Extremes Meet'Plate 3 from the Bakerian Lecture paper 'On the composition and analysis of the imflammable gaseous compounds resulting from the destructive distillation of coal and oil, with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers', by William Thomas Brande, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 11 28. Three figures showing an Argand burner (figures 1 and 2) and a rose burner (figure 3). Signed lower left 'Wm.