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Kidder's Patent Gas Regulator.


Producing uniform L'gM,
And encctng a Saving of % per cent.
NJ GAS CONSUMER WHO DESIRES
steady, agreeable and economical ght, should
be without this valuable invention, which at once
does away with all personal attention to gus lights,
and secures invariably the utmost economy in the
consumption OF gas.
1t is in successful operation in the largest Hotels
and Factories of the United States, and in thousands
of private residences, everywhere thoroughly per-
forming its work. 1t has been fully tested by the
most eminent Gas Engineers of the Union, and the
Company has yet to hear of the first instance in
which it has failed to be approved.
ENGINEERS' TESTINONY
Manhattan GAS WoRKs, Oct. 20, 1852.
Dear Sir Enclosed | send you q certificate set
ting forth as briefly as | can the advantages of Dr..
kidder's admirable invention. do not think it
necessary to mention any experiments may have
made Drs Elicit, Torrcy and Gibbs have book
fall to be produced when needed. | will add here,
however, to he used when you desire it, the result
OF an experiment made at these Works, and which
can be repeated whenever desired. With the street
pressure Of four and half inches of water, and
burner near the governor the pressure of the burner
gauge was seven-tcnths. The governor remaining
untouched the number of lights increased to
fity-tour extending over n surface of several hun
bred feet, and the street pressure reduced to
two inches and the pressure gauge the governor,
as before, seven-tenths.
Yours, &c, CIIAS. RooME.
MANHArrAN GAS WonRs, Oct. 20, 1852.
The Gas Regulator of DIR. Kidder is, in my opin-
ion, the most valuable instrument for regulating the
flow of gas to the burners that have ever seem
1t is correct in principle, and will accomplish admir-
ably the objects for which it designed 1t will
insure great steadiness in the lights, and as the
pressure at the metre is by this instrument reduced
considerably below that on the street MAINS it will
enable the consumer to gain equal amount Of
light at a smaller expenditure of gas for the less
the pressure under which the gas is consumed, the
greater is the amount of light obtained.
CHAS. ROOME, Engineer
Mdnh"ttan Gas Light Company.
RicHMoND, August 49, 1853.
My engagements prevented me from experiment.
ing with your Regulator before this week had
il put up md so arranged that ! could show the
pressure of the works the burners, which vary
from to q inches. | made some weights of lead
and weighed it 20 brought the pressure to 6l0 the
pressure on 'he street mains q inches and with of
your feet burners under the street pressure, the
cocks turned off that they would not perccptibly
blow consumed ~ cubic feet in - minutes, |
then put the Regulator and opened the cocks full,
same number of burners, burning the time, |
consumed cubic feet showing saving Of Is per
cent. The experiment, 70 me very satisfactory ;
the lights burned very steadily, | could not per-
ccvc any difference in the pressure flame whether
one or six of the lights burning. From what
| have seen. would have no hesitation in recon-
mendng its
Remarkably yours.