Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . covered that a superior mineraloil, which he called kerosene, could be readilyand profitably distilled from the coal found on PrinceEdward Island. This kerosene or hydrocarbon oilspeedily displaced camphene as an illnminant. Itsmanixfacture rapidly developed into an importantindustry in the Unite
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . covered that a superior mineraloil, which he called kerosene, could be readilyand profitably distilled from the coal found on PrinceEdward Island. This kerosene or hydrocarbon oilspeedily displaced camphene as an illnminant. Itsmanixfacture rapidly developed into an importantindustry in the United States, and large distillingestablishments arose, both on the Atlantic coast,where foreign coal was used, and throughout thecountry, wherever cannel or other convertible coalwas found. With the discovery of petroleum in pay-ing quantities on Oil Creek, Pa., in 1859, there cameabout a great change in kerosene lamp-lighting. It was found, upon analysis, that crude petroleum contained about fifty-fiveper cent of kerosene, which constituted its most important product. Themanufactories of kerosene from cannel or other coal, therefore, went out ofexistence, and new ones, larger in size and greater in number, sprung up forthe manufacture of kerosene or, popularly speaking, coal oil, from petroleum*. MODERN LAMP. WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY 41 This illuminaut came into almost universal favor for lamp use, owing toits cheapness and brilliancy. It is not free from clanger when improperlydistilled, but under the operation of stringent laws governing its preparationand testing, danger from its use has been reduced to a minimum. In ruraldistricts, in smaller towns and villages, wherever economy and convenienceare essentials, and when beauty in lamp effects is desirable, the keroseneilluminaut has become indispensable. The discovery of petroleum helped further to light the world and distin-guish the century. It gave us gasolene, naphtha, gas oil, astral oil, and thevery effective mineral sperm,
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