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, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.

A new art of procuring artificial light, which consists in burning the gazeous fluid obtained by distillation from common pit-coal, has of late engaged the attention of the publ...

The flame of burning bodies consists of such inflammable matter in the act of combustion as is capable of existing in a gazeous state. When all circumstances are favorable to th...

Encouragement given by the legislature to the new system of procuring light.--Gas-light company, incorporated by charter, to apply the new art of illumination by way of experime...

Production of the flame generated during the combustion of certain bodies.--Characters of flame when perfect.--Most luminous flame, how produced with the least consumption of co...