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Kidder's Patent Gas Regulator.
Produc'ng a uniform Light,


And chectiDg n Saving of % per cent.
~ o q A 5 CONSUMER WHO DESIRES A
steady agreeable aud economical light should
be without this valuable inventions which at once
does away with all personal attention gas lights
and secures invariably the utmost economy in the
consumption of gas.
1t is in successful operation in the largest Hotel.
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' TESTIMONY.
MANHArrAN GAS WoRks, Oct. %, 1852.
Dear Sir ;-Encloscd send you a certificate set
ting forth as briefly as can the advantages of Dr..
hldder's admirable invention. | do not think it
necessary to mention any experiments may have
made Drs. Elicit, Torrey and Gibbs have book
fall to be produced when needed. | will add here
however, to be 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 one
burner near the governor the pressure of the burner
gauge was seven-tcnths. The governor remaining
untouched, the number of lights was increased to
hity-iour extending over surface Of several hum
dred Feet and the street pressure was reduced to
Two inchcs and the pressure gauge at the governor
as before, ssyen-tenths.
lours' &C., CHAS. ROOME.
MANHATrAN GAS WORKS, Oct %. 1852
Inc pas Regulator o1 Dr. klddcr is in upin-
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 was designed. 1t will
insure great stcadiness 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 an equal amount of
light at smaller expenditure of gas for the less
the pressure under which the gas is consumed, the
greater is the amount of light obtained.
ClIAS. ROOAlE, Engineer
Manhattan Gas Light Company.
RrcBnoSp, August 10, 1853.
My engagements prevented me from experiment.
ing with your Regulator before this week. | had
it put up and arranged that | could show the
pressure of the works the burners, which vary
from to % inches. | made some weights of lead
and weighed it so brought the pressure clio, the
pressure the street mains q inches and with of
your feet burners under the street pressure, the
cocks turned off 20 that they would not perceptiby
blow, | consumed II cubic feet in % minutes |
then put the Regulator and opened the cocks full
number of burners, burning the same time,
consumed . cubic feet, showing a saving of % per
cent. The experiment to me very satisfactory
the lights burned very steadily. ! could not per-
ceive any difference in the pressure or flame whether
six of the lights burning. From what
have seen, would have no hesitation in recon-
mending its