New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-20

were placed the different utensils over gas names,
whose intensity could be regulated by turning
off or on the gas in the required quantities. The
gas pipe of leather was then applied to the hollow
handle of a gridiron, each bar of which was per
forated at equal distances with holes OF the size
of q pips point. By turn of the hand the gridi-
ron presented magical appearance it hamed up
with blue lights, and over them were placed some
mutton chops, which were expedihously cooked.
While this was going on, water was being heated
by the gas, and the company was treated 10 some
hot punch. In justice to the grdiron, it must be
mentioned, that it can be turned on its side, and
thus presenting a perpendicular front, 1t can be
used for roasting A cook by this means could
place vertical gridiron on handsome center
table and with tin kitchen before it, with goose,
turkey or pig therein preside over her work while
reading a novel or working at cruels for the or
binary STOPPING, perspiring, fuss and litter are
done away with.
In a word, the most disagreeable household de-
tails which require despised drudges to perform,
are obvated by this means. Ot course there Is
no getting in of coal or wood no dust or DIRT Gre
ated thereby; no smell no poisonous exhaation.
All YOU have to do is to have pipe from the gas
mandatory in your cellar, with gas conductors
as at present, and your fuel and oil and candles
are laid in for year In and year out. Inc ordlna'
~ dry heat of anthracite is obylated. Inc great,
the immense desideratum OF moist atmosphere,
that infinite superiority of the European climate
South and West and partially on the East by
oceans may perhaps be secured Tor the health OF
the population in door by this means tor the gas
being made from water, resolves ltsei TO water:
BY putting a china plate over the name, could
detect moisture and the accretlon was palpabie.
Dry heat is an enemy to beauty our women, by
common accord, should have a domestic atmos-
phere which may give them the advantages OF
the English fog where ladies are IN no hurry to
grow DID, the sun being kept out and the atmos-
phere breathed being generally moist The par
Tor and kitchen experiments being over, we ad-
iourned some 100 feet to the gas factory. Here
was shown how it could be manufactured on
grand scale by a Company. A brick furnace about
70 feet square contained the retort, &c. &c. An
ordinary gas establishment with a conductor, will
answer for the manufacture of this new agent.
The inventor told me the expense of heating
drawing room was about a sous, one cent day.
In regard to light, the expense was, he said, as
to 90 in favor of the cheapness of the water gas
over the gas now in use. | suppose the account
will make futterDg among the gas, not to say
the coal companies. l give everything as wit
messed it, which astonished all present The par
ty present were MIR. Sanford, Secretary OF the
Legation, Mr. Sykes of Philadelphia; Mr. Alfred
Moss of Philadelphia Mr.. Corey of Cincinnati );
Mr.. B. Phillips of Philadelphia; Mr.. Haskell OF
New. York, and others among whom there was
but one opinion of surprise and admiration.
As heating agent, its powers were fully test
ed room was heated by the gas In very
short time The heat was OF the most agreeable
kind, as has been before said; the combination
with oxygen producing water, and preventing that
dryness which always accompanies our furnaces.
In this point Of view it presents immense advan-
tages on the score of health and economy.
AS to the means Of the preparation OF the gas;
A number of methods have been suggested by
chemistry, most OF them from the decomposition
of water; but all of them have been heretofore
regarded rather as class experiments, more In.
teresting as to theory, than capable OF practical
application. Mr. Giilard, by simple ana cheap
method, makes pure hydrogen. steam is passed
into an air tight iron retOrt, exactly like those IN
gas establishments the bottom OF the retort, COW
cred with a layer of charcoal to the depth OF an
inch or So the retort IS heated to bright red and
carbopic acid and hydrogen are produced Inc
chemical action is simple; the oxygen OF the
water combining with the charcoal, forming car
bonic acid, and passing with the hydrogen INTO
q chamber containing lime Here the caroOnlc
acid combines with the lime, forming carbonate
of lime, and the pure hydrogen being liberated,
passes off. The advantages of this manufacture
over that of coal or oil gas In point OF method
and expense, are to apparent to be dweit upon.
| have given you this account, believing II
would be interesting, and trust intellglble even
to those of your readers who are not acquainted
with chemistry. The apparatus is so simple that
it may be found with the exception OF the piatl
mum wick, in any laboratory, and the method
will hope, be put to the test by some OF your
scientific friends, as to satisfy themselves, and
convince the public that it is what the inventor
claims il to be.
Patents have been obtained for all the coun-
tries of Europe and for the United States, and IN
Manchester it is said the work has been success
fully commenced. In the course OF month a
Philadelphia gentleman now in this city. will re-
turn home with the requisite authority from the
Patentee to introduce the manufacture OF Hydro
gen for Light, &c. into the United States