. Light and lighting. three-mantle gas lamp osing about 60 cubicfeet of gas per hour at a pressure of abouttwo pounds per square inch. We haveno high ,, gas service or mainsfor lighting in this city, and. of course,no high pressure gas lamps. In Londonand Berlin several miles of streets areequipped with this Bystem, and highpressure gas, as they call it in London,IS used for interior lighting and particu-larly for the local application, quickly, ofintense heat concentrated in a point formanufacturing operations. In thesecities it is stated thai a profitable businesshas been built up in
. Light and lighting. three-mantle gas lamp osing about 60 cubicfeet of gas per hour at a pressure of abouttwo pounds per square inch. We haveno high ,, gas service or mainsfor lighting in this city, and. of course,no high pressure gas lamps. In Londonand Berlin several miles of streets areequipped with this Bystem, and highpressure gas, as they call it in London,IS used for interior lighting and particu-larly for the local application, quickly, ofintense heat concentrated in a point formanufacturing operations. In thesecities it is stated thai a profitable businesshas been built up in t his way. In operating high pressure gas system!for municipal lighting only, compressorstations, like electrical sub-stations, are established. These take the low pressure from the ordinary mains at lightinghours and compress it. using the high lure mains as their only st. reservoir. Low ore sure is on the highpressure mains during the day bo thaipilot jets keep burning. When the THE ILLUMINATING ENGINEER (june) 285.
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