Gas light burners Finish:Rolled Like a Colossus

Like a Colossus

Upton Park closed on Boxing day due to a frozen pitch

with audience witnessing the draw

The man is sharpening an item on his grinder which he is operating by foot

c1874-1914

Gas light burners Finish:Rolled Like a ColossusPlate 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.