Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The subject of gas-burners and the development of light from coal gas is of considerable interest, alike to the consumer and the producer of gas. When it is known that one burner may develop twice as much light as another, for the same consumption of gas--the first cost of the...
The first gas-burner was a very simple and unpretentious contrivance. In one of the earliest works on gas lighting[1] we read: "The extremities of the pipes have small apertures...
3. CHAPTER III.The premier position among gas-burners undoubtedly belongs to the Argand; and it is from no unwillingness to recognize its claims, much less from ignorance of its merits, that I...
5. CHAPTER V.As was remarked in the introduction to this treatise, recent years have witnessed a very considerable advance in the construction of gas-burners, and in the amount of light capa...
4. CHAPTER IV.Throughout this treatise, much has been said of the relation which the pressure of gas, at the point of its delivery from the burner, bears to the illuminating power of the flam...
6. CHAPTER VI.A review of gas-burners would scarcely be complete without some reference to the incandescent burners of M. Clamond and Mr. Lewis. Although their dependence upon an artificially...
1. CHAPTER I.The subject of gas-burners and the development of light from coal gas is of considerable interest, alike to the consumer and the producer of gas. When it is known that one burne...
7. CHAPTER VII.The burners last mentioned may be said to mark the extent of the progress that has been made, down to the present time, in the construction of apparatus for developing light fro...