A Practical Treatise on Gas-light: Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.

· 1838

Production of the flame generated during the combustion of certain bodies.--Characters of flame when perfect.--Most luminous flame, how produced with the least consumption of combustible matter.--Conditions necessary for that purpose.--Importance of this subject, with regard to the production and supply of artificial light.--The flame of bodies may be tinged.--Blue flame, red flame, green flame, &c.--Opinion concerning the origin of light emitted by bodies burning with flame.-- Philosophy of the subject.--Theory of the action of the instruments of illumination.--Rude method of procuring light employed in some countries.--Chemical action of candles, and lamps.--Agency of the tallow, oil, &c.-…

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