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Title: Electric Gas Lighting

       How to Install Electric Gas Ignition Apparatus

Author: Norman H. Schneider

Release Date: February 11, 2013 [EBook #42073]

Language: English

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ELECTRIC GAS LIGHTING

H. S. NORRIE

ELECTRIC GAS LIGHTING

HOW TO INSTALL

ELECTRIC GAS IGNITING APPARATUS

INCLUDING THE JUMP SPARK

AND MULTIPLE SYSTEMS

FOR USE IN

Houses, Churches, Theatres, Halls, Schools, Stores or any Large Buildings

Also the Care and Selection of Suitable Batteries. Wiring and Repairs

By H. S. NORRIE

(NORMAN H. SCHNEIDER)

(Author of Induction Coils and Coil Making)

FIRST EDITION

NEW YORK

SPON & CHAMBERLAIN

12

Cortlandt Street

LONDON

E. & F. N. SPON,

Limited

,

125

Strand

1901

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1901

By

Spon & Chamberlain

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

THE BURR PRINTING HOUSE, FRANKFORT AND JACOB STS., N.Y.

PREFACE

The Electric Light possesses the great advantage over gas, in that it can be turned on or lighted from a distance. The customary means of igniting gas with a match or taper is both dangerous and often inconvenient. The inventive genius of modern times has evolved a means of lighting gas by electricity which is both reliable and easy of application. It requires no very complicated devices, nor does it necessitate a deep knowledge of electrical matters for its installation. The object of the following pages is to enable any one possessing ordinary mechanical ability to construct much of the apparatus used, or at least to successfully erect it and keep it in operation.

We beg to thank the following firms for the use of illustrations: Edwards & Co., Mott Haven, New York; A. L. Bogart, New York; Wm. Roche, New York; The Electric Gas-Lighting Co., Boston, Mass., and The Manhattan Electrical Supply Co., New York.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I.

Introductory Remarks.

The enormous number of fires arising from the use of matches, and the great convenience and freedom from danger of the electric method of gas lighting, are alone sufficient reasons for the issue of these pages.

The veriest tyro in electrical operations knows that electricity will cause a spark, and most persons are aware that the spark possesses considerable deflagratory powers, varying with the character of the spark. In electric gas lighting a spark of the proper character is passed across a jet of gas and ignites it. Sparks can be produced by various means: friction, battery current, induction either galvanic or electro-magnetic, by a Wimshurst or Toepler Holtz machine, or an induction coil operated by a battery. For our purposes we will consider only the latter; the former are rarely used, being uncertain and unwieldy.

Of batteries there are many kinds, and although all will produce sparks, yet for electric gas