Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-24
MANUFACTURE OF GAS.
SKETCH or ITS HISTORY WITH SOME
INTERESTING FACTS.

froeess-big Companies
Experiments at gas making were first
made IN England In iCo0, and for nearly
one hundred years various and unsucces.-
full attempts 10 obtain Ras from htuminous
coal aud store Il for use In lighting were
made
The real invention Of practical gas light
ing was, however, male la isgl, and TO
William Murdoch, who IN that year
lighted his house and Office ht Rcdruth In
Cornwall, belongs tho credit Mr.. Muir.
dock removed to Scotland and devoted
himself to the Rns business. In i7p; hc
lighted his premises Mt Old Cumnock In
Ayrshire with coal gas.
Tho following year n undertook tho
construction OF gas works at the shops OF
Mcssrs. Boulton, Watt & Co., NJ Soho.
aud In iso9 frat publicly exhibited the
gas by showing two enormous flames from
two copper vAses at those works. Three
years later the cotton mills of Messrs.
Phillips a Lee. at Stafford, were lighted
under tho direction Of Murdoch with vas
brought from the works.
Tho French engineer Ia Bon In i'p9 took
out a patent for g,s making from wood.
aud proposed lighting Paris, but the
scheme did not Mt that lime meet with sue
ec~-. In 1870 the National Iight and Heat
company was organized In London. after
Il had been successfully demonstrated
that street lamps could bo lighted with
gas. but a charter for tho company being
refused great newspaper war was insti.
tutsd In order 70 create popular interest In
tho now light.
SLOW PROGRESS
In 1910 parliament authorized the grant
Of charter. and Ia 1919 Westminster
bridge was lighted, aud very shortly after
ward all tho oil lights la the vicinity of
Westminster wero removed. Notwlth.
standing this great Improvement over the
old system of oil lights, a great prejudice
against gls existed. and even among mcn
al scieboc-so groat, In fact, that u seemed
VI one time that NO further progress would
b. made.
Tho ignorance prevalent nj That time re-
fariing gases In general WIS 70 great that
when II was finally resolved 70 Introduce
gaa lighting into the house Of commons
the architect directed That the pipes 10
plAocd four inches from the walls lest their
heat should flrc tho bulldingi Aside from
the question Of prejudice, there wer many
obstacles in I'll. way of tho successful de
yelopmcnt Of distributing gas system.
The proper machinery and apparatus for
making RaA had To be constructed, aud for
many years tho required wrought iron
pipes could not bc secured. However, by
the year is22 four great gas companies had
bcon established In London, using more
than $40 rrtortS aud nearly ffty gas hold.
en-, and making tcO. 90. 0Oo cubic feet Of gas
annually
In tbs United States gas for illunlnat.
Ing purposes was nrst made by David Mel.
willie. Of Newport, II. I. Ia lsOj he lighted
his residence and the street In front from,
gi- made from ooJ. In 1873 he secured a
patent, and shortly afterward applied the
hghtto number OF small factories. -Four
years later his process was applied TO the
Beaver Tall lighthouse. That was the first
uEo OF gas 10 any lighthouse Ia the world.
Some persons 10 Baltimorc attempted gas
making about 1910. butno success was met
with until lhll.
MAKING COAL GAS
In ISL RaA was introduced 10 Boston un'
dor the Melville system, and In the follow
Ing year the Now York Ga. Light company
was formed, but. owing 10 tho limited de
mand for gas did not get Into active opcr'
alton until 1877. In 1850 the Manhattan
TIA. company. a rival eoneern, was started,
aud untl ~ late as iSig both companies
Ihhae 'ne.t ~ o. o'i ahu 'osin A.er .ha.
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mure ahn lasg.r Irtor's, WIN she nsul,
mat eonsl'e,nuiy mo'e s"e IN now ou'"'heu
from toh OF GOA.
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be.n anu a'e nov empluyou' you OF
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sompounus ahn eaipohiu ae,a putihestIon.
VI h.e yeats .ne Manufacture OF "hht j.
hhown rs water gh ms peoonio IN I'M
Poftan' p'aneh OF .ne innu4'rN
WAFFLE GAS.
Tho frat patent for water gas was
granted Ia London In is.i Improvements
strange 10 say, IN England none OF the Inn
been able TO compete with coal gas In
nheapness. In this country, owing "a the
eheapness Of petroleum and Its products,
uu,te the reyerse has been the case
During the past iiiteen years the cost OF
vas 10 the consumer has been considerably