Gasogene

<h2 id="in-popular-culture">In popular culture</h2>
<p>A gasogene is mentioned as a residential fixture at <a href="/facts/221B_Baker_Street/S99fqm8F">221B Baker Street</a> in <a href="/facts/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/52dvrHvc">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>'s <a href="/facts/Sherlock_Holmes/fhN0w3Jv">Sherlock Holmes</a> story "<a href="/facts/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia/H0XHAVFf">A Scandal in Bohemia</a>": "With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> One is also mentioned in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone". The device plays a key role in <a href="/facts/George_Bernard_Shaw/roL4nzwc">Bernard Shaw</a>'s 1905 comic play <i><a href="/facts/Passion%2c_Poison%2c_and_Petrifaction/gK4l1E26">Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction, Or The Fatal Gazogene</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
</p><p>The word is also used in <a href="/facts/Douglas_Preston/77X037w1">Douglas Preston</a> and <a href="/facts/Lincoln_Child/FhYjDLWJ">Lincoln Child</a>'s novel <i><a href="/facts/Brimstone_(Preston_and_Child_novel)/HIxzn94l">Brimstone</a></i>, published in 2005, on page 106,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and in their 2010 novel <i><a href="/facts/Fever_Dream_(Preston_and_Child_novel)/PoMbp76l">Fever Dream</a></i> on page 362,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> and in their 2013 novel "White Fire."
</p><p>A gasogene is mentioned, on page 13, as being in the forensic laboratory of Dr. Kingsley, consultant forensic examiner of Scotland Yard in <a href="/facts/Alex_Grecian/hLhjjz9B">Alex Grecian</a>'s 2012 novel <i>The Yard</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
</p><p>A gasogene is mentioned and its use described in <a href="/facts/Sherry_Thomas/DMabL7Ac">Sherry Thomas</a>'s novel <i><a href="/facts/A_Study_in_Scarlet_Women/fmn34l7k">A Study in Scarlet Women</a></i> (Book 1 of the Lady Sherlock series) on pages 244 to 246. (Ebook <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780698196353)
</p><p><a href="/facts/Amelia_Peabody/kN0M1jv3">Amelia Peabody</a> pulls a bottle of whiskey, a gasogene, and glasses from a hamper in order to make herself a whiskey and soda after getting her family on a train to Luxor in the novel <i><a href="/facts/The_Golden_One_(novel)/ee8IGrcI">The Golden One</a></i> by Elizabeth Peters, a pen name of <a href="/facts/Barbara_Mertz/BaQzH6JH">Barbara Mertz</a>.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Soda_syphon/7jkMRTQe">Soda syphon</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sodastream/xaW4hujW">Sodastream</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li>Shaw, Bernard (1934). <i>The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw</i>. London: Odhams. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/2606804">2606804</a>.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://221bbakerstreetla.com/bs_gasogene.asp">picture and description</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040619215345/http://221bbakerstreetla.com/bs_gasogene.asp">Archived</a> 2004-06-19 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> at <a href="http://221bbakerstreetla.com/">221b BAKER STREET/LA</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Mixing it up: A Look at the Evolution of the Siphon-Bottle <a href="http://www.bottlebooks.com/Siphons/mixing_it_up.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bottlebooks.com/Siphons/mixing_it_up.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"gazogene", Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). <a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77244" target="_blank">http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77244</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Doyle, Arthur Conan, "A Scandal in Bohemia", Sherlock Holmes <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Strand_Magazine/Volume_2/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Strand_Magazine/Volume_2/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Shaw, pp. 1113–19 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln (2005). Brimstone. New York: Warner Vision Books. p. 106. ISBN 9780446612753. <a href="9780446612753" target="_blank">9780446612753</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln (2010). Fever Dream (1st ed.). New York: Grand Central Pub. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-446-55496-1. OCLC 455421005. <a href="978-0-446-55496-1" target="_blank">978-0-446-55496-1</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Grecian, Alex (2012). The Yard. St. Ives, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780241958919. <a href="9780241958919" target="_blank">9780241958919</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Gasogene