Gasometer

When thoroughly washed, it flows through the pipe, L, into the gasometer, which is of galvanized iron, and is very carefully balanced. ❋ Various (N/A)

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? ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

Near the gasometer is the hydraulic machine for supplying with water the tank on the top of the house; all the other services on this line of pipe are screwed off, and thus the water is forced to the top of the building. ❋ Various (1841)

The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each gasometer was divided into several zones for living (apartments in the top), working (offices in the middle floors) and entertainment and shopping (shopping malls in the ground floors). ❋ Unknown (2009)

RT @VariousArch @bryanboyer: What will be the 2000s gasometer? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I do like a nice gasometer and yes, Fred, he's done it again hasn't he .... a very nice piece of deconstruction too from your good self, what with all that juxtaposing and echoing going on. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

What with your artfully juxtaposed angles of pub roof and gasometer girders, and your stark relief foliage echoing the passing clouds in the background. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

The unsightly cast-iron gasometer that gave its name to a hairpin bend is long gone, the train station whose ticket office overlooked another 180-degree corner has been replaced by a luxury hotel, and the famous Tabac is buried during race week under the latticed scaffolding of a temporary grandstand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, I probably wont be tuning in and doing another enraged dance about the remaining episodes….and yet, there is a strange fascination, bit like watching a slomo car crash dummy test, or the demolition of a gasometer or such like. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gasometer you mention held blast furnace gas, but is no longer operative. ❋ EliRabett (2008)

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? ❋ Fathorse (2008)

The ground-floor rooms contained benches and apparatus, the bakehouse and scullery boiler had developed into respectable furnaces, dynamos occupied the cellar, and there was a gasometer in the garden. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Yerra, why would he heed that old gasometer with his hooping coppin and his dyinboosycough and all the birds of the southside after her, Minxy Cunningham, their dear divorcee darling, jimmies and jonnies to be her jo? ❋ Unknown (2006)

But here was the junction; here was the gasometer; they were running into the station. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The miner could not live in a place filled with this injurious gas, any more than one could live in a gasometer full of common gas. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Beside the huge gasometer of Stok he looked like a walk-on for La Boheme. ❋ Deighton, Len, 1929- (1964)

In the distance was another bridge and there were more towers and a gasometer. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1964)

Don't get out of sight of the aerodrome, but if you should lose sight of it just come down low and look around the horizon till you see the gasometer. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1958)

The only annoying thing was that the Nurse kept coming in and out, and every time she came in, she brought a gigantic toy with her - a huge doll, bigger than Jill herself, a wooden horse on wheels, about the size of an elephant, a drum that looked like a young gasometer, and a woolly lamb. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1953)