 | 1842 - 538 pages
...was still thought a visionary scheme. Sir Humphrey Davy considered the idea so ridiculous, that he asked " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer?" to which Mr. Clegg replied, that he hoped to see the day when gasometers would not be much less. They... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1842 - 538 pages
...was still thought a visionary scheme. Sir Humphrey Davy considered the idea so ridiculous, that he asked " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer?" to which Mr. Clegg replied, that he hoped to see the day when gasometers would not be much less. They... | |
 | 1842 - 548 pages
...was still thought a visionary scheme. Sir Humphrey Davy considered the idea so ridiculous, that he asked " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for • gasometer?" to which Mr. Clegg replied, that he hoped to see the day when gasometers would not... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1844 - 474 pages
...Royal Society considered the idea of lighting a town with gas so visionary, that he asked in ridicule " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer ?" Another president of the Royal Society, at the head of a deputation consisting of many fellows of... | |
 | 1844 - 544 pages
...Royal Society considered the idea of lighting a town with gas so visionary, that he asked in ridicule " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer ?" Another president of the Royal Society, at the head of a deputation consisting of many fellows of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 pages
...general lighting of London with gas. Yet the scheme had been so ridiculed, that Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, asked "if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer ;" and a deputation of Fellows of the Royal Society, on visiting the Peter-street gas-works, speculated... | |
 | William Newton - 1855 - 432 pages
...still (1813) thought a visionary scheme. Sir Humphrey Davy considered the idea so ridiculous, that he asked if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer." It is not difficult to comprehend that the doubts of the uneducated must have been very strong respecting... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 pages
...lighting of London with gas. Yet the scheme had been so ridiculed, that Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, asktxl " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer ;" and a deputation of Fellows of the Royal Society, on visiting the Peter-street gas-works, speculated... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pages
...Theory of Light. Again, Sir Humphry Davy, the president of the Royal Society, asked the inventors " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer ;" and a deputation of Fellows of the Royal Society, on visiting the first established gas-works in... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...Parliament, one of their witnesses, Mr, Accum, the chemist, was bitterly ridiculed by Mr. Brougham, FRS; and Sir Humphry Davy asked if it were intended to...Wollaston, and Watt at first gave an opinion that coal-gas could never be safely applied to the purpose of 7 (Frederick Albert Winsor, Projector of Street... | |
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Davy considered the idea so ridiculous, that he asked " if it were intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer? 
