MANUFACTURE OF GAS.
The "Times" says a great'improvoment ■-' \ in the manafacture of gas has just introduced at Watford, liy Bros,, whose workshop ari now lighted' with flie'new gas, which give apurowhite and brilliant light of fivo times the illuminating power ordinary coal gas. By the new process smoke or smell Is emjtted, and p'o facrufr wM bing," or lime purifying,';. is' There is no danger in the manufacture, only non-explosive oils are used. TheflH new apparatus can be adapted to exietins coal gas works, and all ordinary 'H pipos, gasholders. &c;, can bo utilised,':"H A sufficient'quantity of i;as' of great I'unu- JH nosity and purity can jje manafa'ctured im a few.'hours fo kgep a "large pjanainijH supplied'for a |s.Jd cubic feet, which is about one price of the Watford town gasl. A burner .'; >; f assing one oubio foot per hour of tli'ii , ,- J new gas, according to the photometfio tost, give§ as much, ligjif,asj burflep pas'§T i;ig five cubjc feet qf th,e ordinary p'oj>) gis; and as it contains no 6u(pprotjpd hydrogen or carbonic acul,'plants, pjolures lioofc, and gilding, do riof in fijiy way differ fronj its oontacf.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 31 March 1882, Page 2
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188MANUFACTURE OF GAS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 31 March 1882, Page 2
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