Gas-Lighting and Gas-Fitting: Including Specifications and Rules for Gas Piping, Notes on the Advantages of Gas for Cooking and Heating, and Useful ... and Gas Fitters, for Manufacturers of Ga - Softcover

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Excerpt from Gas-Lighting and Gas-Fitting: Including Specifications and Rules for Gas Piping, Notes on the Advantages of Gas for Cooking and Heating, and Useful Hints to Consumers; A Pocket Book for Gas Companies, Gas Engineers and Gas Fitters, for Manufacturers of Gas Fixtures and Dealers in Gas

Numerous and varied are the methods employed at the present day for obtain ing artificial illumination. Leaving out of consideration the electric light which occupies a position by itself, we may. Broadly speaking, distinguish between solid, liquid and gaseous illuminants, of which the candle, the Oil-lamp and the gas-flame are representative forms.

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