The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-10-16
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| The .S,esO o.. Oaygsn Light.
| The proprietprs in America of the grea,
chemical discovery of France, and whicf
ina very briefperiod Of time is rdsstinet
toreyolutionize our present mode ofafti.
fetal lighting by oils and carburetted hy-
drogen extracted from coal, tar and other
vegetable substances, are making unosten-
tatious but rapid progress toward meeting
In their fumess all the exigent demands
that, the light once introduced, win be
made upon them. Xas9A }A 4 ftAsoS
Having by the repeated experiments Of
Professor Doremus, to whom the practical
questions which enter into the use ,of the
oxygen in combination with street gas
were submitted, and from whom none but
the most favorable reports have been re
ceiyed, the gentlemen interested have or
ganized themselves into Q company, and,
without opening stock, suhscribed suffi-
Gent capital 10 warrant them in erecting q
large laboratory, two hundred feet in length
by one hundred in breadth between Tenth
and Eleventh avenues, in Forty.irst street.
This structure is being prepared under the
direction of Mr.. Kennedy, of the firm Of
Hoy, Kennedy q Co., Liberty street, Presi-
dent OF the company for the manufacture Of
oxygen---a gentlemen whose experienced
all that pertains to the preparation of the
ordinary street gas is well known through
out the country, he having for nearly D
quarter OF o century devoted his energies
to the building of houses and machinery
for the distillation of the carburetted nv
drogen. 1 /. !sfdsI aAaisbseIrF n
It is, not intended to lay pipes in the
thoroughfares for the, combustion of the
oxygen for some time, even ii the company
were authorized, but they do propose CON
veying it in portable vessels TO the build
ings, public or private, in which it may be
desired for illuminative purposes. MI.
Booth is placing throughout his new the
atre on Sixth avenue duplicate pipes, so
that when the oxygen is manufactured in
quantities sufficient it can be introduced
without delay, and many gentlemen of for
tune who have seen the light at the Office
OF the company in Nassau street are also
to have 1T in their houses. b T5TaaF93
About the middle. of November, it is
thought, the new light which is nearly
two hundred times more brilliant than that
emitted by a wax candle, and fourteen
times more powerful than the illuminative
power of carburetted hydrogen nineteen
and half times that of the gas made by
the Manhattan company, as shown by actu-
al measurement in the laboratory of the
College of the City of New York; will be
formally and permanently introduced. It
is not only more powerful, as has been
demonstrated, in brilliancy, but, compared
with the ordinary gaslight, many per cent.
cheaper. A thousand cubic feet of oxygen
will cost the consumer, it is estimated, $25,
and thousand feet ofstreet gas 90, or $2S
for two thousand feet of oxygen and carburS
cited hydrogen, which total of mixed
gases is equal in their illuminative quan-
titles to not less than twenty-eight Thousand
feet of the gas that is consumed in our
lars, or forty six dollars more than, apart
from its great steadiness, purity and beau
ty, the oxygen light is now believed will
cost. This will certainly, in the course of q
year, aggregate to the people of q city 50
large as is New York an enormous saving.
1t is curious fact that although carburr
cited hydrogen gas, as an artificial light,
has been In use sixty yearsr-it being intro
duced in factory in England in 1808-no
improvements have been made upon it.
The principle of its manufacture is thesam
now as when it was fret used, and yet there
is no field in which the chemist could benz
eft his fellow-creatures so largely as in
this. The time will doubtless arrive when
we shall be enabled to burn gases that
will wholly be innocuous. Even now the
discoverers of the oxygen gas, as a potent
element in artificial light, have demon
strated that pure hydrogen in large vol
unles can be obtained from the 3distillation
of lime and coal. From mixing one ton of
quicklime with a like quantity Of coal
dust forty thousand feet Of unadulterated
hydrogen have been obtained. What, then
(all other things being equally is toiprer
vent the introduction of hydrogen into
dwellings, &C., for heating as well as for
purposes of illumination 2 None, whatev-
er, we repeat and the day is not far dis
tant when, in the great question of cheap
light and cheap heat, two gigantic steps
shall have been taken in the path. of scion
entific progress. ~. 3 =. .7'aA''A AA
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