New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-18
The Cooperation OF

not keep I'D with quantity Inc Io'P"'s"'u "
Iordou have ordered Investigation oil sn'' su'ec'
end the r.sut has developed some facts sos hereto
fore suspected by the public t. exist 0feN '"'a''
ties are found in the gas. rendering " eico''Hs NY
-;on. .lisa IN house. health and atmosphere, ani
m.pfestly in need of Improvement In F'''s ''e
sane subject has been recently taken Up anu 'n'
comnis.sn appointed 20 examine "eApiess 's''n''"
mert in their report to the Academic ioe!
remark. that while We see every ia! VITA ~na' ~i
mite care uunberless articles of merchandise arc
WEIGHED or measured many Of them oil great oaiA
and little value. yet consumers OF gas arc o'a
tent TO measure only the volume received sna nov It's
,sl;,v when. ss il well known, accidents or fraud
in ;be manufacture or admixture Of atmospheric air
; loss Of from 20 to 80 per cent. in the Ia
mi, s,inp rover. This is taking new view OF tue
point at issue but correct one. Tue couims
consequently recommend that gas should Do PuF-
chased by its lght-giSing power, not oy quau'
t.ty. But there is another Poins III oounec-
ton with the subject which deserves ATTENTION
BY American inventors. We need burner wu'ca
shall regulate the flow of gas at the Jet' Snd erect
ualy prevent the escape OF any gas wi'heu' Perec'
combustion. 4 heavy pressure is always put on oy
the gas companies, csu.i0g nearly one hau OF tue
ubola cp,nt,,v 70 BASS of unconsumed. Their blsl-
ness il to sell gas ours to purchase IT, ou' NV ""'
more than we can use. Yet under the presens ar-
ranged ent Of gas apparatus, we are enurey d. 'ue
mercy Of the companies who sell i. In one oil our
large cities after the price hsd been considerably re-
duced every consumer who compared MS O1lIs dls-
covered that notwithstanding the reduction h's OIL
WAS larger than before the reduction took place
Esch consumer nay place some check on THIS eh''t
to camel him to pay TOR more gas than he consumes,
by shutting of the head at the meter. Bu! tais -
,roublesome affair TO most housckeepers. Besides
tho cock AT the meter is 20 constructed tina. il cannot
be turned BY hand Nothing short of wrench or
piucers will move It: and regularly as the compf
pys agent visits the premises he as regularly turas
on the WI ole head OF gas \ systematic formula ap'
bears to prevail everywhere, whose "noIe 'g''' -
TO compel the consumption of an extraSagans qaaat't!
remedy for this conditioned thlngsis greatly needed,
and be who can produce cheap and efcctusl one
will be public beneiactor, ana vii certainly enrich
himself
"A French mechari, ~ Franchot, after many
years OF hard study, has now completed his hotair
engine in which there slides, valves or stops
He saws ii it s combined in such way "a best to
.suihst the motive power of tho calorc the masses
"of air. inclosed between two movable Pls'ons, un-
"derso in fact continual and gradual variations Of
"pressure and of temperature and return perodl-
"cally to their primitive condition" This en-
dea1or to convert heated air into . motive
power for engines is still vigorously prosecuted on
both sides Of the Atlantic. Another intelligent
French uechancian, NJ Nickles, ia pursuing bis ex-
periments the msgpetisation of rails and succeeds
in making model locomotive run up hill as soon as
the magnetic current is turned on. Another electro
magnetic weaving machine has been invented in Pa
ris and publicly exhibited 20 far, il comparatively
experimental. Sardinia had slready led the way in
this ample field and they may now emulate each
other in bringing the ingenious continuance into gem
sral use.