Electric Gas Lighting: How to Install Electric Gas Ignition Apparatus

Before entering into a description of the various batteries used in electric gas lighting, it will be well to briefly consider a few simple electrical rules bearing upon the sub...

Fig. 20 shows how to connect up an automatic burner with two pushes; thus one can be downstairs in the hall and the other upstairs, allowing one to either extinguish or light th...

The jump spark system is used where it is desired to light clusters of gas jets situated in inaccessible places, or a number of them simultaneously. The spark from a Ruhmkorff c...

As we have already seen how a spark is exhibited at an interrupted contact, the means of its application to gas lighting will be considered. Fig. 7 represents the most generally...

To construct a primary coil such as used with pendant or automatic burners presents no difficulty. The most convenient sizes are those 8 to 10 inches in length and about 3 inche...

The enormous number of fires arising from the use of matches, and the great convenience and freedom from danger of the electric method of gas lighting, are alone sufficient reas...

laps of Steam Valve. CHAPTER VI.--Valve Setting continued. CHAPTER VII.--Lubrication with diagrams for same. CHAPTER VIII.--Discussion of the Air Pump and its Management. CHAPTE...

Electrical Rules--Electromotive force--Amperes--Resistance--Selecting a battery--Arrangement of battery--Series--Multiple--How to get high voltage or large current--The Leclanch...