Retorts Collection

Gas works retort house, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London
Men at work in the retort house of the gas works at Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. The retort house contained the retorts (vessels) in which coal was heated to generate the gas

Women making ceramic retorts. Date: 1902

Suffragette Old Man Paid to the Cause. A suffragette addresses a gathering of women. Speaker says, My old man paid 100 to the cause for every day I was in jail

Retorts and stills. Drawing from a Greek manuscript of alchemy. Drawing. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Boys Tease Redhead 1924
Two boys tease a redheaded girl, calling her carrot-head: she retorts that her hair is auburn

Gas-Making in London
Drawing the Retorts at the Great Gas Light Establishment, Brick Lane, London : at this time the streets of London are lit by gas, so the demand is huge

Stoking the Retorts
A man with a long, heavy steel pole, stokes the retorts at a gasworks

Gas / Drawing Retorts / 1903
South Metropolitan Gas Company. An interior of a factory showing retorts being drawn by hand

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