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Retort
Retort House, Great Central Gas Works, Bow Common
Retort House, Imperial Gasworks, King's Road
Gas works: l: Retort House. 2: Tar cistern. 3:
Distillation of oil of vitriol also known as sulphuric
An engraving depicting a gas making apparatus
A woodcut engraving depicting a method of producing
Knight's Cyclopaedia of the Industry of all Nations
An illustration depicting the drawing of the retorts
Gas works for lighting a town or large district
Gas lighting apparatus at Royal Mint, London
Athanor or Slow Harry, a self-feeding furnace
An engraving depicting a gas making apparatus
Sugar refinery, Southampton, England opened 1851
Satirical cartoon, Retort Courteous or the disloyal address
Women workers, World War I
Gas works retort house, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London
The Alchemist of Goudmaker, 18th Century
Alembic
Alembic
Alembic
Alembic
Alembic
Alembic
Shudhur al-dhahab, Islamic Alchemy Manuscript, 12th Century
Quackery, 1799
Virginia City Retort House
Liebig's Lab Equipment
Virginia City Retort House
Board Schools Established, 1870
LONDON GAS COMPANY
The retort - an hieroglyphic epistle from the Revd. Dr. Whit
The retort brutal
Shadowed!
Gas Retort House
Stoking the retorts of the gas works by Matania
LONDON GAS COMPANY
Imperial Gas Works
Dentists - Doctors - Inventors - Medicine - Science
Dishevelled maid tries to explain lack of bread to Mistress
The retort furnace
Market Reports Series - Sugar in Good Demand
A group of weaverbirds and their hanging nests
Gas Retort House
Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison Town
Market Reports Series - Sugar in Good Demand
Drunk Yokel protests his innocence to local landowner
Gone fishing with cheese as bait - humorous scene
Mistaken identity - Gentleman and Jewish woman
Two handmade Christmas and New Year cards
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