Date:1900
Description:William Murdock's gas-holder at the Soho Foundry, Handsworth, showing the restraining and regulation weights. The three weights are each 112lbs, a figure arrived at through calculations by Watt and Murdock themselves.
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Donor ref:LSH WK H5 0540 (3/1193)
Source: Local Studies and History Department
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