And the millions who stay at home, how are they to be persuaded that the thrill provoked by a locomotive or a gasometer is the real thing?. From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
K, has been closed so as to keep the gas in the gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
The acetylene formed is disengaged and enters the gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
The great gasometer of the South Side gas-works had exploded. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
RT @VariousArch @bryanboyer: What will be the 2000s gasometer?. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Twitter links, part 2] Reference
Beside the huge gasometer of Stok he looked like a walk-on for La Boheme. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
The gasometer you mention held blast furnace gas, but is no longer operative. From Wordnik.com. [Rabett Run] Reference
Fig. 1 represents the apparatus complete, with gasometer and bottling machine. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference
R, whence it passes through Q into the purifiers, and then into the gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference
In the distance was another bridge and there were more towers and a gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Delft Blue]
This plug turns 90 degrees, when it is maneuvered by the chain of the gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
Then as more gas comes in to take up this room, the gasometer keeps on rising slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges. From Wordnik.com. [Gasometers Reimagined as Apartment Community] Reference
The quantity of carbide necessary to fill the gasometer is introduced into the basket. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
But here was the junction; here was the gasometer; they were running into the station. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
This gasometer consists of a tank, A, of a movable holder, C, and of a stationary holder, B. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
It is well to use salt water for the gasometer, as acetylene is but slightly soluble therein. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
The conduits, Q and Q ', and their valves, K and K', direct the gases toward the purifiers and the gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference
Talking of distance, I reckon that's your gasometer on the horizon to the far left of the pic... am I right or am I right?. From Wordnik.com. [So Says I] Reference
The town gasometer had evidently been blown completely into the air, what was left of it was perched on its head in a drunken fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
That is a natural gasometer within the reach of all purses. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Special Correspondent] Reference
Weymouth with its bathing machines and its gasometer faded away. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
Beyond her was a row of bathing-machines, and beyond that again a gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
The gasometer even must fall to pieces unless it is renewed; but the grass renews itself. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
The gasometer will be made, probably, of thin muslin or silk, saturated with gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference
The Towers are not tall, but are low in proportion to their circumference, like a gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
There was a big green gasometer of carbon dioxide, a glittering brass-bound pump and a filling apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [In Mesopotamia] Reference
A sphygmograph stood upon the table and a gasometer-like engine, which was new to Dr. Ripley, in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
They had disconnected the gas at the gasometer and cut the electric wires, and the city was plunged in darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal City] Reference
It may have been the bathing-machines, or the gasometer beyond the railway station, or the flag above the Royal Hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
"He's down at the bottom of a gasometer," answered Joe; "leastwise he was there this afternoon -- an 'a dirty place it is.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters] Reference
There is a huge granite U.S. Custom-house -- costly enough, genuine enough, but as a decoration it is inferior to a gasometer. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
The idea was ridiculed by Sir Humphry Davy, who asked one of the projectors if he intended to take the dome of St. Paul's for a gasometer!. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
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