Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-30
HOUSEHOLD GAgWO8KS.
The Invention Of the Age-Relief for
Housekeepers from the Coal Oil
Nuisance and the Gas
Monopoly.
Inst the Thing for Small Towns and
Cities-Cheap and Easily Managed
Durable and Altogether Re-
table,

The household gas W0rKs were H.
vented by r. H. smith, gas-iDspectOr
for Allegheny cOuaty, Pennsylvania,
from 1868 to 1875; Samuel II. Gold
thorp, gss.engineer, Mount Washington,
Pennsylvania; Joshua GoldthOrp, dep
uty-gas-inspectOr for Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, from 1868 to 1875; VIM.
Smith, proprietor National toundry ana
pipe.works, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania;
and patented July Is, 1873; August
70, 1873; June 80, 1874; May %, 1875;
May 2S, 1875; October 6, 1874; August
10, 1875. ,-u 1u,-- 1878
In calling your attention to this sys-
tenn of furnishing gsslight, we do so
with most peTfect confidence in what
we are now offering to the public, hum
dreds being in most successful operation,
some for more than three years. 1t is a
miniature city gas.wOrks, and combines
all the perfect safety Of the city gas in its
use, while it is very much cheaper, and
| so simple that the gas can be manafsc-
| tured by any one. We call it new
method because sll gas machines no"
before the public are Of one principle, eXI
cept this. AS the gas made oy tnem al
| is Of one quality, air loaded or cnsFgeu
with light vsp0r or gasohne-an az
| ticle that is more dangerous IN any form
you can put it than gunpOWder, anu al
most as explosive as nitro glycerlhe:
| In these works we use either refined
petroleum or carbon Oii-the same as ID
burned in common lamps-or crude
petroleum. More light is obtained from
each gallon Of oil, when used in tines
works. than can be obtained il burned IN
lamps, The amount annually expended
for cnimneys and lamps-to say nothing
Of the danger attending the u2e OF Oil III
lsmps-WilI pay the cost OF making the
oil into gas with these works.
The gas made by these works Is per-
fectly fixed gas, the same as Is soid Dy
gas companies, and will never again be-
come fluid. 1t will remain fixed gas
forever, unless used.
The gas is perfectly pure, contains moi
a particle of sulphur, ammonia, or car
bonic acid, and burns without any odor'
1t is so pure that it has been used To-
heating greenhouses, without the leas
injury to the plants.
There is no other gas works offered tt
the public at this time that can insure
I such perfect safety in its use. We say
this without fear OF contradiction, ant
we challenge the world to produce {
more ample one. A description OF TIL
8
1t consists of an ordinary heating
stove, q washer, and gRs-hOlder.
7 The stove or generator is simply sys
tenn of plain common castings, and al
put together perfectly loose, without
. single bolt, and can be taken apart q
any time SO readily as you can lift tn
: plates off The top Of your cooking stow
or range. And should at any time an
y psrt of i become broken or worn out,
3 can readily be replaced at very little ex
| | pense, being only common castings
. without any Ii ting about them.
COST OF GAS MADE BY THE HOUSEHOLD
g GAsWORKs.
=, From two gallons OF oil we OBJ lain To
: equivalent in light Of one thousand fet
q OF coal gas; to decompose these two ga
Ions of oil into a feed gas by these wCrE
l requires not over ten cents worth OF ia
), aud two nouns time Of the Lahore
= worth. say fifteen cents ptr hour.
i With this data you can very resdil
= determine the cost of king gas by III
4 process.
y The following are the prices of the VI
rious small. sized household gsswOrks il
Is tended for private residences, publ
G buildings, hotels, railroad stations, ia
d tories, mills, and villages, consisting
u gent razor, washer anu EdS-uuIuSJ, Sllu
i lar to those usad by the city gas comp
10 MES, with brick tank and wreught-ico
gas-holder The prices herein named il
l. clude all costs, labor, ard material f
l. works complete, except freight frol
2. here to point of destination, and trave
10 ing expenses Of one man whom we ser
n to place them il position, start then
t. and give alI necessary instructions as
manner Of operating same.
70 We also give with prices the cspacii
r. in cubic fees, Of the gas holder that a
companies each sized works, and as eaC
Is cubic foot OF gas manufactured by Of
"a PROCESS supplies one burner, one hOu
d you can readily determine which
r these sizes will answer your purpos
1t best, and how often you desire % mai
st your supply of gas. 1t will he four
p that for dwelling it will be more Col
1t venient to have works Of such cspaci
81 IS to only require the making OF 4 SUI
l. ply of gas once g week during this vii
r ter, and once every two weeks,during Il
summer SCISSOR.