Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-24

chandelier containing so incandescent
burners. followed; and at the close OF the
| lecture large part OF the audience re-
manned to examine the processes OF heat
ing and cooking which were shown on the
platform.
There has never been a scheme pro
posed that offered more secure invest
ment for our surplus capital and promised
greater profits than the formation OF .
syndicate for the introduction of this fuel
gas into this and every other city and town
on the continent of from 1000 inhabitants
up. Its introduction will be eagerly wei
coined by housekeepers and manufactur-
ers, for aside from the fact that it Is much
cheaper than solid fuels. the knowledge
that it will dispense with the handling OF
wood and coal and will leave no ashes to
dispose of will commend it favorably to
every community. The manufacturer who
uses steam. in estimating the cost of his
productions, will admit that fuel absorbs
a considerable share of his expenses. In
the district where natural gas abounds the
| factories that use coal cannot compete
| with those that use natural gas as fuel,
and the time is not far distant when the
manufacturers OF the East will be unable to
compete with those of the West unless
some means of obtaining cheaper fuel is
assured them. The Lowe fuel water gas
is the kew to the situation. This can be
supplied as cheap as natural gas if stock
| company is formed to furnish the necessa-
ry funds. This is worthy of considera
ton at the hands of capitalists.
1t would be supposed after reading the
above that this gas could only be used for
heating and power purposes. This is not
so, however. About nine months ago
Professor Lowe after much study sue
ceeded in applying it to Illuminating pur-
poses An incandescent light is produced
by allowing lighter jet of the cheap fuel
gas to come in contact with a sprll of in
destructible metal. This is heated to a
white heat, becoming brilliantly luminous,
the gas meanwhile burning apparently
without flame. There is positively no
Pickering OF the light, as is the case with
gas. The cheapness of the gas used in
producing the light may be indicated by
the statement OF the inventor that light
of twenty candlepower will cost the con-
sumner but one-Quarter of cent per hour
for the gas. This gas in its pure state
produces combustion without light. In
order. however, to produce light it is nee
essary to bring the gas into contact with
carbon. or to render some substance in
candescent. Not only is the simple light
an acknowledged success, but its varia-
tons and combinations are alike success
full, and its direct applications to the fur
nishing of heat as well as light have thus
far realized the highest anticipations of
the inventor
The capabilities of loves fuel water
gas are fully demonstrated at the Novelties
Exhibition. which closes this evening
For this purpose a complete water gas
works is erected in the north annex OF the
main building. with a capacity of 5000
cubic feet per hour. 1t comprises a
holder, a generating apparatus. with all
the machinery necessary for washing and
purifying the gas. After the Exhibition
it will be transferred to a large city. where
it will be employed in the manufacture of
fuel gas for heating, lighting and power
purposes. Directly outside the works is
a large bake-oven in the exhibit of Walter
G. Wilson, the well known cake and crack
er baker. The oven is fed with fuel water
gas.
Adjoining this exhibit is that of the
Dickson Manufacturing Company, of
Scranton, containing one of that company's
new Stockport engines. A pacard hangs
over it, and shows that it is using water
gas as fuel and could be started in one
half minute, -Phtladelphtd Record.