Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — Alliance of Gas and Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Alliance of Gas and Electricity.

The alliance between gas and eloctricity is already assuming largo proportions in the aspect of one as a means of motivo power for the production of the other, says Industries and Iron. A curious and somewhat unexpected application of electricity as an assistant to gas in its turn is afforded by the patent recently taken out by the Societe Hermes, of Stockholm, for simultaneously lighting ranges of gas burners by the electric current. In addition to its application to the ordinary fishtail burner, the system is specially adapted for the ignition of the Auer incandescent light. It has received a practical exemplification at Leipsic, but as its working appears to involve a great number of separate batteries whenever any considerable distance is to be covered, it does not seem probable that the system will attain any considerable practical value.