Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-05-01

lGIlT.-The Wheeling C~amphine Company
having received a supply OF Webb's Cam
phine OIL and Lamps. is now ready 10 furnish the
citizens of Wheeling, with the best light in all re-
spocis which has ever been offered to the public.
Annexed IL the result of the analysis OF the Cam
phino Oil and the opinion Of Professor Locke of
the OHIO Medical College at Cincinnati Us to the
superiority OF the article for light.
ihe Store OF the C~amphine Company is on water
street n lew doors above the stage office, where
me light may be seen nightly. Sales are for cash
only !. SANBORNE. Principal Agent.
MIR; GAY Age"tJ for a. v H. Web. Of Ncio York,
Having called ON me for my opinion with regard
10 'no use OF CamPhine. for the purposes Of artificial
illumination ! have, after examininC the subject
embodied the following information:
L. Naf"Te q CdnPAine Camphine is n proximatc
,esT""'e principle discovered sumo years since,
y Dumn,, OIL Paris' IL is mostly procured from
spirlisoi Turpentinc, and is in fact "a yerv pure
essence OF Tnrpeniine.' IL is capable of combining
WIN oihei substances, and of being separn,eJ agnin
lrom them without being changed in its oualit,es
] has therefore. like pure Alcohol and Ether. n
permanent and distinct nature rs a chymical sub
stance. It's coloiless, limpid. moderately volatile
aud combustible. in the same manner as sp,rits of
Turpentine. but il is not explosive. Camphor dill:
ers ir~oNnCamphine only in containing oxygene. hence
the name OF Camphine. or basis Of Campho
II Economical HScof C~dmphiHeJ for Me purposes
q illumination. My opinion in favor of the use Of
~|amphine for lights. was fully expressed in INV lee
lures last winter. and see mo cause for changing
."ul opinion The circumstance which recon-
mend II, are as follows:
L. Ii can be furnished in abundance. and at a
moderate price.
:. IL affords a light more brilliant than any other
substance hitherto proposed fer common use.
>. IL Is safe IN no way explosive, drops no fire
from the wick. and leaves no fire upon il.
Il IL Is cleanly. leaves no grease marks. and il
spilled on clothes or GlFnifprc xu,.-,t. o,t,-,1.
like Alcohol.
p IL endurcs any natural degree Of cold without
becoming in the least cungealed.
g. The lamps once in order. need no snufing
or raising of the wick, but merely require 10 be
kept clean, and TO be filed as often as they burn
themselves empty.
Remark. The CamPhino bv exposure 10 the air.
may; after some months keeping, become n liule
deieriorated, and begin 10 form n black crust on
the wick. The article under these circumstances
Is not SPOILED, but only requires rehabilitation by
the manufacturer, TO he asperiect as at first.
III. Experiments 10 determine hc comDara,ire
economy u CdMphiHe aud Sperm OIL for Msmina.
ton.
August %. 1910. Having filed a Fountain Ar
gand Lamp with n measured quantity of the besI
Sperm OIL and one of Webb's Patent Camphine
Lamps, with a measured quantity of Webb's Cam.
plIneii lighted them simultaneously, and measured
the quantity OF light afforded by each every twenty
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residual quantity Of Oil and Camphine, determined
The quantity of each consumed. Frum these data
calculated the proportion Of each substance neces.
sary TO afford an equal light. The result. was, thai
~ paris of Cnmphine were equal in illuminating
power to 100 parts Of Oil, by measure. Allowing
both Substances to he OF equal price by the gallon,
there would be n saving OF more than one.half u,
using The Camphine Some idea OF The superior
hrilliancy Of the light from tho Camphine may be
formed from the fact That in the above experiment
although the diameter Of the two flames was NOT
very different, the one being seven-eighths and the
other nine-eighihs of an inch; yet the light from the
OIL was To that from The Camphine only rs 3 To 10.
the Camphine giving more than three times as much
light as the OIL.
v PecHLdriticS IN The combustion Of Cdmphine
Va WcbD's Patent Burners, &c. &c.
When Camphine is burned il the unmodifed open
ali, It consumes with much black smoke. like spirits
OF Tnrpeniine, but with a thin fame aud a current
Ut ar alta certain velocity. not n particle of smoke
appears The construction of the Camphine LAM
for lis oil ject the above conditions.
MI. Gay has shown me one Of MIR Wehb's Pat
ent Cnmphine Burners, with a 'circular wick" be.
tween two "cOnical' conceulrick plates, which j.
elegant in form. and answers The purposes of smoke
less combustion completely. Mr.. Gay has also shown
inc n sample Of The Camphinc, manufactured hyAIr
Webt of New York, according to his patent me.
thod. Il seems To me to have all Of the properties
OF The CamphIne Of Dumas and afforded a very su
Perior light, as appears from The foregoing expert
ment.
The use Of Campfire for the purposes Of illumi.
nation Is not n new project. but has the experience
oi some years To II. and so far, I believe.
1t la. given general satisfaction.
JOHN LOCKE.
Medical College Of Ohio. August %, 1910.
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The article as prepared by NJ. Dumas, was
made IN the laboratory without reference to cost.'ab.
solutely pure-oci S-if