Gas Burners Old and New : A historical and descriptive treatise on the progress of invention in gas lighting, embracing an account of the theory of luminous combustion

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merriman, Owen

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Gas Burners Old and New" by Owen Merriman is a historical and descriptive treatise written in the late 19th century. The work delves into the development and improvements of gas lighting and burners, addressing both the consumer's and producer's perspective on gas usage. Merriman aims to increase public understanding of this technology while presenting an engaging account of the advances in gas burner designs over time. The beginning of the treatise introduces the critical relationship between gas manufacturers and consumers, outlining how efficient gas burners can dramatically affect lighting quality and gas consumption costs. Merriman expresses a desire to explain the principles of gas combustion and highlight the evolution of various burners, starting with simple designs like the early gas burner examples. He also notes the historical skepticism surrounding gas lighting and acknowledges the significant progress made in enhancing the efficiency of gas burners compared to their predecessors. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Introduction

The first gas-burner

The batswing burner

The union-jet or fishtail burner

How light is produced from coal gas

Improvements in flat-flame burners

Brönner's burners

The hollow-top burner

Bray's burners

Argand burners

Sugg's Argands

The Douglass burner

Governor burners

Regenerative burners

Incandescent burners

Conclusion.

Credits:

Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 48.9 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Release date is 2011-11-05