Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-08-24


IGUr-1he Wheeling Camphine 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-
specis 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 of
the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. as To the
superiority OF the article for light.
The Store OF the Camphine Company is on wafer
street. a few doors above the stage office, where
the light may be seen nightly. Sales are for cash
only. B. 2. SANBORNE. Princinal Acen,
Ma. GAY, Agent for A. y. H. WeJ6. of Men York.
Having called on inc for my opinion with regard
TO tho use OF Comphinc. for the purposes OF artificial
illumination, ! have. after examining tho subject.
embodied the following information:
!. Nature IF CamPhine. Camphine is a proSimaie
vegetable principle, discovered some years since,
10y Dumas, oil Paris. Ii is mostly procured froIn
spirits OF Turpcniine, and is in fact "a very puro
esseu'e OF Tnrpentine." II is capable of combining
Win other substances, and ofbeing separated again
from them without being changed in its qualities
IL has therefore,, like pure Alcohol and Ether. n
permanent and distinct nature ms a chymical sub.
stance. IL Is ~coloiless. limPid, moderately volatile
aud conbusuble. in the same manner as sniri,s of
Turpentinc, but il is not explosive. Camphor diff
ers iroslCamphme only in containing oxygcne, hence
the name OF Camphinc. OF basis of Camphor.
IL Economical USeof CaRiphiRc for the purposes
Fl illumination. My opinion in favor Of the use of
Camphine for lights. was fully expressed in my lee
= lures last winter, and see no cause for changing
{ lhaI opinion The circumstances which RECON-
: mend II, are us follows;
] i. 1t can be furnished in abundance. and at a
moderate price.
:. IL affords n light more brilliant than any other
c substance hitherto proposed for common use.
>. IL As safe, ia no way explosive. dnops no fire
from the wick. aud leaves no IRE upon il.
a IL Is cleanly. leaves no grease marks. md II
h spilled on clothes or furniture. evaponles entirely
4 like Alcohol.
q 5. 1t endures any natural degree of cold without
!, becoming IN the least cUngealed.
u. The lamps once in order, need no snuhing
or raising of the wick. but merely require 10 be
kept clean, and 10 be filed as olen as they burn
i themselves empty.
Remark. The CamFhino by exposure TO the air
may; after some Months keeping, become n lille
e deteriorated. and begin 10 form a black crust on
g the w;ck. The article under these Circumstance,
IS not spoiled, but only requires rehabilitation b,
e ihe manufactured, TO be asperfect as At FIRST.
III. Experiments 10 determine me conDarafiu,
e economy Of C~aHlphine aud Sperm Oh for Msiaira
d tOn.
AHgHsi27, 1910. Having filled a Fountain Ar
gand Lamp with a measured quantity of he bes
d Sperm Oil and one of Webb's Patent Comph;n,
Lamps, with n measured quantity of Webbs Cam
II pIine; | lighted them simultaneously and measured
n the quantity of light afforded by each every twent,
mlnuies' Tor two hours, and finally measuring The
residual quantity of Oil and Camphine, determine
The quantity Of each consumed. From these data
calculated the proportion of each substance neees
c sary TO afford an equal light. The result. was, tina
i ID paris OF Camphino we're equal in illuminatinc
, power TO lOO parts of Oil, by measure. ALLOWING
a both substances To be of equal price by the rallnn
d there would he a saving of more than one half n,
using the Cnmphinc. Some idea of The superiol
Z brllianry Of The light from The Camphine may l..
! iorHIed from the fact that in the above experiment
hiIhoush Tie diameter Of the two flames was moi
very different. The one being seven-eigh;hs and the
olhcr nIiie-eighIhs of an inch; yet tho light from the
2 vi was TO that from The Camphine only as 3 To 10,
= The CamPhinc giving moro than thsee times as much
{ hghI as ne Oil.
". PecHLGoHies ia The combustion of Cauphiae;
W. WeL6s Patent Burners, DC. DC.
When Camphine is burned IN tho uumodiGed omen
an, u consumes with much black smoke, like spirits
OF Iurpeniine. but with a Thin flame and a current
oi ar alta certain velocity. not n particle of smoke
appears The construction OF The Camphine Lamp
Tor It's oil jcct the above conditions.
Mr.. Gay has shown me one Of Mr. Webb's Pat
eht Iamphine burners. with n "circular wick, {" be.
tween Nv" "conicai' concentrick plates. which is
elegant lE form. aud answers the purposes of smoke
less combustion completely. Mr. Gay has also shown
ne q sample of the Camphine. manufactured byATr.
n NeDt oil New York, according To his patent me.
mod. Il seems 10 me 10 have all Of The properties
Of The CamPhine of Dumas and afforded a very su.
peror light ai appears from tho foregoing expert
ment.
The use OF Campfire for the purposes Of IIlnmi.
nation IS not a now project. but has The experience
Of some years TO recommend NJ. and so far. believe
al has given general satisfaction.
JOHN LOCKE.
Medical College Of Ohio. August %, 1910.
: The article "a prepared by NJ. Dumas. was
made IN the laboratory without reference 10 cost. NIB
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