Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas for the Lighting of Streets, Houses and Public Buildings with Elevations, Sections and Plans of T - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819. Excerpt: ... AN ACCOUNT PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING Coal aau PART I. General Nature and Advantages of the art of procuring Light, by means of Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal Gas. JL HE 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. This art is so wonderful and important, it speaks so forcibly by the effects it has already produced, that it cannot fail to increase the wealth of the nation by adding to the number of internal resources, as long as coal continues to be dug in this island from the bowels of the earth. For if we distribute the catalogue of human wants which a civilized state of society has introduced, the production and supply of artificial light, holds next to food, clothing and fuel, the most important place. We might indeed exist without it, but how large a portion of our lives would in that state be condemned to a state little superior in efficacy to that of the animals around us. If we could for a moment suppose the privation of artificial light, during the absence of the Sun, it would follow as an immediate consequence that the greatest part of the globe on which we dwell, would cease to be the habitation of man. Whether he could ensnare or overtake those animals upon whose unprepared remains he would then be compelled to feed; whether he might store the fruits of the earth for his winter supply--what might be the physical and moral consequences of a state of such desolation, may perhaps be conjeetured, but no estimate can show its dreadful magnitude. How much do our comforts, and how gre...
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