A practical treatise on gas and ventilation : with special relation to illuminating, heating, and cooking by gas : including scientific helps to engineer-students and others / by E. E. Perkins.

  • Perkins, E. E.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A practical treatise on gas and ventilation : with special relation to illuminating, heating, and cooking by gas : including scientific helps to engineer-students and others / by E. E. Perkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    gas in private houses is, that the heat ge- nerated by its combustion is insupportable, and that ceilings, and picture-frames, and furniture generally, are liable to be injured, discoloured, &c. Now, the products result- ing from the combustion of gas are precisely similar to those from tallow, wax, oil, cam- phene, &c. If the gas be well purified, there will be less risk of discoloration of walls and ceilings, or of injury to the most costly arti- cles of furniture, picture-frames, &c, than from the use of either candles, tallow, wax, or sperm, or from lamps of oil or camphene, giving out an equal volume of light. When gas is first introduced into a house, the duty of the fitter is to distribute the pipage judiciously, so as to have it declin- ing to the meter; to see that every joint, connecting piece, bend, elbow, T-piece, be properly screwed and connected; that the syphon or syphons (if any) are placed in proper depressed situations; that the tops and burners be severally well screwed home;