Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — High-Pressure Gas. [ARTICLE]

High-Pressure Gas.

In many, European cities extensive use is being made of' high-pressure gas-lamps for street-lighting, and to some extent the lamps are displacing electricity. They are furnished with inverted mantle burners, and in Berlin the gas is supplied through Mannesheim steel pipe. In some of the systems the air is compressed, and in one case pure oxygen is supplied to the consumers. In London a type of lamp called “self-intensifying" is employed, the air being utilizing the heat of the products of combustion to operate a heat engine. In Vienna arc-lights are used to Illuminate a park above the trees, and gaslamps are employed below. In connection with these lamps, various automatic lighting and extinguishing devieerf are in use, and much taste is displayed in the forms and arrangement of their ansoorta- _