The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-24
Petroleum Gas Cheap light and Iu'
made from Ola sew and CHEAP
Invention.

The New York News gives the fol.
loving description Of n new apparatus
jlst invented by a Mr. Salisbury, foI
he manufacture Of gas from petroleum
The apparatus used in the manutaC
ure Of gas Euihcient to supply hous'
pr steamboat, occupies very SINAI
AMOUNT Of space; but the principle, a.
previously mentioned, can be expanded
TO an indefinite extent; so that by Nc
Sali5bury's process all New York could
be LIGHTED yet, then. the work would
not take up one~iinicth Of the ground
on which the coal gas works, which sup
ply the city now, are built IN bis
.pecifcations, Mr.. Salisbury describes
mis- invention as The Combination
Petroleum Gas Works, for cVaporizlnl
and purifying Lydro-oarbonlc gas ron
Petroleum oils and thor residlCus. -
The works consists q:
1. = machine called q hydrostatic
regulator, which regulates and equal
zes tho supplies Of material 10 be
used in gen Grating the gases, either IN
tho LIQUID or vaporized state
2. 4 reservoir Of peculiar construc
ion, WHICH receives the liquids from
inc hydroststic reEulatcc, 10 be there
prepared In 81 taporizsd form for being
carried to the retort, where IL is made
MO fixed gas, or, ia summer the gas
can be distributed directly from Ibis
reservoir
) A retoTt, which can be set into q
cylinder OF cooking stove, or l1to g.
range or furnace This receives the
yspoTized gas from 10 ., rae liquids
direct from No. l. The ge.o-J b. chang
ed With iron pipes, in (which the water
aud vaporized gas are separated and
pure hydro-carbOnIc gas produced.
A combined Washer cooler and
/ Purifier which receives gas from tho re-
I tor first into water, which oools and
I washes it, thence passing il through a
/ series Of iron sleeves, allied with lime,
where it il perfectly purified
A Hydraulic Regulator, which an
sveGs the purpose al gasometerl re
+ talres the res from No upon the top
Of -ha water surface, and rs the supply
Of eas becomes greater than the con
umoGon, the pressure Of the gas
CAUSES the water 20 rise into On upper
chamber unM the inequality IS RENE
( died
Tor heating srd oookjngpurposcs the
oasis conveyed to the stoves Of any de
sirc& size, .Iom the little six inch bach
aloys kettle stove to the hotel Kitchen
range. and there, by the simplest me
chanical device imaginable the fame is
intensified and expanded to whatever
extent NAV be needed.
/ The process Of manufacturing gas on
tina principle can be applied with equal
facility 10 the family wants OF small
. private residence, 10 tAe Yequircme ut5
1 OF a hotel steamboat, railroad car, OF
place of entertainment, OF, 70 the de
mands OF a large city.
/ The mo Eel apparatus which Mr. sails
bury has perfected and put Ia opera
. non Is intend TO supply the average
consumption in az ordinary dwelling
. Ia It's working it is SO free from intrica
CIV or danger that its management may
. be alnfiicd TO any one OF common IN
f teliigence, without the slightest fear Of
accident, Il makes the quantity OF
cas desired lust 80 fast rs the gas Is con
s1med and no faster, and this without
the aid of a meter, no matter what num-
her Of burners may be from time to
time ignited OF extinguished la this
respect, by a most ingenious cOntrIv~
succ. II regulates itself completely. IN
winter the gas IS generated 10y heat,
which can be obtained from au OrdiuG-
~ stove Of almost any kind, and with
cut interfering with the regular use OF
.sra ef-sts cor a. her YUTpsets
In summer no heat need he used
The gas +. then manufactured hy
means Of su siI-b.ast, thai forces com
mon sir into o. reservoir, constructed
with commitments, in which the alr
travels ON O. suriaC' Of petroleum,
about oue-eishth OF an inch IN depth.
ana during lts course Rusorbs and
holds I'm suspension current Of nap
tla
The gas can be distributed over %
house through the pipes and burners
nCw IN service IL can bs &c readily
lighted, shut OF and controlled as the
ordinary C5s, and the apIsIa-ls IS So
arranged as % preclude che possibility
Of explosion. The fame of the gss IS
larger from % three feet banner 10 is
fer whittier and more brilliant, and is
ls= th.E ore uslf the cost
These are some Of the advantages
C,siueo for this novel invocation by us
projectors, and they enforce their state
uaa's with .ormiigJie array Of Sta
tiat.cs They ssy, Tor instance, that Che
various means ~ illumination u1wln
use cost az do following comparative
rates peg hour