Gas as an illuminant

✍ Scribed by Van Rensselaer Lansingh

• Book ID: 104118252
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1912
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 855 KB
• Volume: 174
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(12)91197-7

✦ Synopsis

THIS paper is divided into two parts: first, that treating briefly of the historical subject of lighting, and, second, a brief review of the art as known to-day. Attention is entirely devoted to the subject Of ordinary gas, as time will not permit of a consideration of special gases, such as Pintsch, carburetted-air, acetylene, etc.

HISTORICAL.