A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light: Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, With Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas I have stated the leading objects Of public and private utility to which the new system of lighting may be successfully applied, candidly pointing out those in which it cannot be made use of to ad vantage. I have detailed the most obvious effects which the discovery of lighting with coal-gas must inevitably produce upon the arts and upon domestic economy; its primary advantages - its views - its limits, and the resources it presents to industry and public eco nomy. I have endeavoured to show how far its application is safe, and in what respect it is entitled to public approbation and national encouragement. It may not be improper, before concluding, to in form the reader, that my qualifications for the task I have undertaken are founded upon many years experience, during which time, I possessed peculiar opportunities to witness and verify the most ex tended series of operations that ever have been made for the purpose of ascertaining the practica bility, safety, and general nature of the art of apply ing coal-gas as a substitute for tallow and Oil and which have, as it were, fixed the fate of this art. The numerous experiments I instituted, upon a large scale, by desire of the gas-light Company, for the purpose of adducing them in my evidence before the House of Commons, and House of Lords, on a former occasion, have enabled me to collect such in formation as could not have been obtained by other means. The substance of these results (which are printed by order of Government,) are incorporated in this Treatise, together with such other facts and observations as have presented themselves in the routine of my profession elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.