Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-07-17

IL iphi.-lhe hheelihg Oamphlne Company |
having received n supply OF Webbs Cam
phine oil and Lamps. is now ready 10 furnish the
citizens of Wheeling, with the hest light ian all ro-
sPects which has ever been offered to the public.
Annexed is the result Of the analysis of the Cam
Phine OIL and the opinion of Professor Locke off
the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati rs 10 the
superiority Oi the article for light
The Store Of tho Camphine Company is on water |
street, few doors above the stage Office, where |
the light may be seen nightly. Sales are for cash
only. BIZ SANBORNE. PRINCIPAL AGENT
MIR. GAY Agent for A. y. H. WeJ6. Of Nep York, |
Having called on me for my opinion with regard |
10 the use oil Camphine for the purposes Of artificial
illumination, have, after examining tho subject |
embodied the following information:
| !. Nature Of CGTiPhine. Camphine is a proximate
vegetable principle. discovered some years since
by Dumas, of Paris. IL is mostly procured from
spirits OF TurpentiRe and is in fact "a very pure
essence OF TurpenIine" 1t is capable of combining
with Other substances, and ofbeing separated again
iron them without being changed in its qualities
IL has therefore, like pure Alcohol and Ether n
permanent and distinct nature as a chymical sub
STANCE. IL is coloress. limPid moderately volatile
aud combusble. in the Same manner as spirits of
Turpenine, but It is not explosive. Camphor diff
ers iroaCamphine only in containing oxygene. hence
the name OF Camphine, basis of Camphor
IL Economical usoof Camphine for he purposes
Of illumination My opinion in favor Of The use Of
Camphine Tor lights, was fully expressed in my lee
|
= that opinion The circumstances which recon-
mend IT, follows:
l. /. IL can be furnished in abundance, aud at n
@ moderate price.
g 1t affords light moro brilliant than any other
ID substance hitherto proposed for common use
d q. IL Is safe, IN no way explosive. drops no fire
10 from tho wick and leaves no fire upon IT,
D a. II IS cleanly. leaves grease marks. and il
spilled on clothes or furniture, eyaporates entirely
a like Alcohol.
st ,. II endures any natural degree Of cold without
s. becoming IN the least CUngealed
nj 6. The lamps in order, need no snuflinc
ID or raising Of tho wick. hut merely require to he
IS kept clean, and TO DO filled often as they burn
TO themselves empty.
re Remark The CamPhine by exposure 10 the air
Id mayi aier some months keeping, become Little
tdeienorated, and begin 10 form a black crust OF
the wick The article under these circumstance
Is not spoiled but only requires rehabilitation b,
the manufacturer. 10 be n perfect at first.
Ill. Experiments 10 determine hs eoDlparafiu
economy 81 CamPhiHe and Sperm OIL for dismina
ton.
August 81, 1910 Having filled Fountain Ar
gand Lamp with measured quantity Oft bes
Sperm Oil and ono of Webb's Patent Camphin,
Lamps, with a measured quantity Of Webb's Cam
plrIne; lighted them simultaneously. md measure,
The quantity OF light afforded by each every twen
minutes. for two hours, and finally measuring tl
residual quantity Of Oil and Camphine, determine,
The quantity Of each consumed From these data
calculated the proportion of each substance neces
sary To afford an equal light. The result wns iha
10 paris OF Camphine wero equal in lluminaiin,
d, power 10 100 paris Of OIL 10y measure AIIo,ini
both substances 10 be of equal price by the gallon
p; there would be saving OF more than one.half b,
~ using the Camphine. Some idea of the superio
D bnlIancy oil the light from the Camphine may b,
~ formed from The fact that in the above experiment
IN although the diameter of the two Gnmes was no
- very different, the one beiag ghfhs and IN,
other nine-eishihs Of inch yet tho light from tho
- O was 10 that from the Camphine only as 3 to 10
The Camphin0 giving Iaorc than three times as much
. light tie Oil
" Pec"Larities an NE cozJaStoa Of Camphine
. Va WeJUs Patent Burners, DC. &c
When Camphine is burned ia the unmodified open
~ an, II consumes with much black smoke. like spirit.
OF Tnrpentine, bat with n thin flame and current
"i ar alta certain velocity. not particle of smoke
- appears The construction of the Camphine Iamr
!, for ats Object the above conditions
y Mr. Gay has shown me one Of Mr. Webbs Pat
ent Camphine Burners, with a "circular wick be-
d tween two "conical' conccnirck plates which is
elegant IN IOrm and the purposes of smoke
II less combustion completely. Mr. Gay has also shown
5 Ine Q sample OF The CamPhine, manufactured byAIr
J. Webo OF New York, according To his patent me.
ihod u seems TO me 10 have all OF the properie.
Of the CamphIne Of Dumas and afforded very SUI
peror light, az appears from tho foregoing expert.
ment
: The use Of Camphine for the purposes Of Illumi.
nation Is not now project. but has the experience
: Of some years TO recommend IT, and 50 far believe
At has given general satisfaction
= JOHN LOCKE.
Medical College Of Ohio. August IS, 1910.
= Tho article prepared by NJ. Dumas was
made in tho laboratory without reference 10 cost a
solU'ely pure,-oct S-tE