Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — Two Cents' Worth of Gas. [ARTICLE]

Two Cents' Worth of Gas.

In a lecture recently delivered at Hie Royal Victoria Hall, London, Prof, Carlton J. stated that thirty-seven cubic feet of gas, which Is valued at one penny (two cents), and weighs about 1(4 pounds, can generate altout one pound of water when burned, and altout nineteen cubic feet of carbonic acid. It can heat thirty gallons of water from 50 degrees to 110 degrees for a bath, or It can boil eight gallons of water In good kettles, and make tea for sixty-four persons. It enu work /i oneliorse power gas engine for one hour, or lift a weight of eighty-eight tons ten feet high, doing the work of six men for one hour. It can melt ten pounds of Iron, and make a casting in- twenty minutes, which ordinarily would require two hours and thirty pounds of coke. It can braze a metal Joint In two minutes, wnieh would require twenty minutes in a forge. If burned in a sixinch flue for ventilation purposes, it can induce 80,000 cubic feet of pure nlr. It can give you a brilliant light i Weisbnch Incandescent) of fifty cnudle power lor nine hours. It can, In a good radiating stove, eomfortnbly warm a room sixteen feet square for an hour. It can easily cook a dinner for eight persons.— Practical Engineer.