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In the ssss1, I have given a description of an entirely new machine, called the gas-metre, or self-acting guage, lately adopted at the Birmingham, Chester, and other gas works, which measures and registers the quantity of gas manufactured in any given time, from any given quantity of coal, or consumed during any period, by any number of burners or lamps. The great services which such a machine must render both to the manufacturer and consumer of gas, are particularly pointed out, and illustrated to the manufacturer, by serving as a complete check on his workmen as to the quantity of work that ought to be performed, and to the consumer, as an exact measure of the quantity of gas he receives, and ought to pay for.

The ssss1 is appropriated to the description of another apparatus, called the governor, also of recent invention, and now in use at numerous establishments. The design of this machine is, to regulate the pressure of the gas, before it enters into the mains, the importance of which must be sufficiently manifest. I have also pointed out the application of this apparatus for regulating the magnitude of the flames of gas burners and lamps.