Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-07-27

1T IGuT-The Wheeling Camphne Company
4 having received n supply OF webbs Cam
phine oil and Lamps, is now ready 10 furnish the
citizens OF Wheeling with the bes: light in all
speeds which has been offered TO the public
Annexed is the result of the analysis of the Cam
phine Oil and the opinion of Professor Locke Of
the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. MS 10 the |
superiority VI the article for light.
i The Store OF the Cumphine Company is on wafer
street lew doors above the stage office. where
the light may be seen nightly. Sales or cash
only. IL. =. SANBORNE. Principal Agent.
MIR GAY. Agent for A. " ~ WeJb. Of Netc York.
Having called on me for my opinion with regard
10 Tue use oil Canphlne. for The purposes OF artificial
illumination. have. after examining the subject
emho,ied the following information,
]. Nature IF GaAPhine. Canphine is a prosimaie
vegetable principle, discovered somo wears since.
10y Dumas. of Paris. IL is mostly procured from
sPiriiso Turpentinc. and is in fact "a very pure
essence OF Tnrpenline. II is capable of combining
with other substances. and fbeing separated again
FROM them without being changed i'm its qnaIites
II has therefore, like pure Alcohol and Ether
permanent and distinct nature as a chymicaI sub
STANCE. Ii is coloess limPid. moderately volatile
aud combus,ible. in the same manner spirits OF
Turpentnc. but it Is not explosive. Camphor dill.
ers iro0oamPhine only in containing oxygene, hence
the name OF Camphne. or basis of Camphor.
u EconoAnicai Isoof CamphiHe for me purposes
ef NaD,uafian. My opinion in favor of the Of
. Camphine for lights, WINS fully expressed in my lee
~ lures last winter and no cause for changing
- that opinion The circumstances which recon-
mend II, are follows:
n. l. 1t can be furnished in abundance. and at q
re- moderate price.
'g 2. II affords light more brilliant than any othe
nj substance hitherto proposed for common use.
I'd D. Ia is safe. IN no way explosive, Drops fire
no from the wick. and leaves no Ere upon H.
10 4 II is ceuny. leaves grease marks. and
s. spilled on clothes or furniture eyaporates entirely
, like Alcohol.
psf s. II endures any natural degree OF cold wiihou
Is becoming in the least concealed.
mt D. The lamps once in order. need snuflin
nd or raising Of the wick, but merely require TO b
ns kept clean, and 10 be filed olien as they bur
10 themselves empty.
he Remark. The Comphne by exposure to the MI
nd may; after months keeping. becoIae liiil
deicriorated, and begin form a black crust o
the wick. The article under these circumstance
- is not spoiled. but only requires rehabilitation b
the manufactured To be asperieci ut first.
III. Experiments 10 determine the eoppdrotit
economy Of CamphHe and Sperm OIL for Msmint
tioR.
August "a. 1910. Having filed n Fountain A
gand Lamp with measured quantity of the be-
Sperm Oil and one of Webb's Patent Camphin
Lamps, with n measured quantity OF Webb's Can
plIine;l lighted them simultaneously, and measure
The quantity of light afforded by each every twenl
minutes for two hours. and finally measuring III
residual quantity Of Oil and Cam hine, determine
the quantity of each consumed From these data
calculated the proportion OF ench substance nece
. Sary TO afford equal light. The result, was, th
o IS parts of Camphnc equal in illuminaiir
=, power To 100 parts of Oil by measure Alovir
" both substances TO be of equal price by the gallo
~; there would be q saving OF more than onehalf
- using the Camphne. Some idea Of the SUPERB
ch- c" v '' "s"' 'oH "'o S'"Pn'ne "iay
n formed from the fact that in the above eIpcrime
-, although the diameter Of the two flames was ID
49, very different, the being seveneighths and u
- other nine eighhs Of inch; yet the light from u
,os Oil was To that from the Camphine only as 10
. the Camphinc giving Than three times as niue
> light ~ Oil.
~ ". Pccai.ariiies in he combustion of Canphin
~, W. Neb6s Patent Burners. &c. &c.
When Camphine is burned in the ummodiGed op,
N, ali. II consumes with much black smoke. like spir
of Turpenine, but with thin flame and II cure
cd air at certain velocity. n particle of smol
-, appears The construction of the Canphine Ian
'Ih, for IFS oil ject the above conditions.
av- MIR. Gay has shown Of Mr. Webb's Pa
10 ent Camphino Burners with "circuIar wick. - b
ned tween two "conica" concenirick plates which
IND elegant in FORM and The purposes smok
al less combustion completely. Mr. Gay has also show
ues uo sample Of the Camphinc, manufactured byA
eel Webt Of New York. according to his patent m
/. ihod. Il seems 10 10 have all of the properii
OF the CamphIne Of Dumas and afforded very >
peror light a. appears from the foregoing expe
nent.
IT. The use Of Campfire for tho purposes Of lllun
nation Is not new project. but has The experieu,
is Of some years 10 recommend It. and FAR beiey
O. ithai gives general satisfaction.
ie- JOHN LOCKE.
es Medical College Of Ohio. August %. 1910.
30 . The article os prepared by H. Dumas. W,
made IN The laboratory without reference 10 cost a