Drawing of a retort furnace in Głubczyce

Category Plans and charts

Year of manufacture/creation 1923

Place of manufacture/creation Żarów, then Germany

Size Height: 71 cm
Width: 120.5 cm

Material paper

Museum/Storage location Gasworks Museum in Paczków

Date of admission to the museum 1992

Rights to the exhibit Gasworks Museum in Paczków

Rights to digital images public domain

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Exhibit description

This arrangement drawing shows the anatomy of the heart of the Gasworks in Głubczyce – its furnace.

The illustrated retort furnace has seven different levels. The accuracy of the drawing allows us to see all the individual elements of the furnace responsible for gas production. The retort was able to take as much as 200 kg of coal which transformed into 60 m³ of gas.
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