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1. A plan of the place to be lighted with Gas, drawn to a scale not less than one tenth of an inch, to ten feet. The design must exhibit the particular spot, where the Machinery is to be erected.
2. The kind of gas lights required, namely; whether the lights shall be equal in illuminating power to one, or more tallow candles of a given weight, or equal to an argand lamp.
3. The number of lights.
4. The average time the lights are to burn, throughout the year.
5. The average price of coal, and rate of workmen’s wages, at the place where the light is wanted.
AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING
Coal Gas.
PART I.
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General Nature and Advantages of the art of procuring Light, by means of Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal Gas.
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The new art of lighting houses, streets and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal gas, is one of those modern discoveries on which the admirers of science and the inhabitants of this country in particular, have greater reason to congratulate themselves, than any other invention or discovery of the present age.