g. 2. what progress it would have made over gas. Thisinvention has brought gas up alongside of electric lightagain, or nearly so; but it cannot be made to surpassit, and the advantages of electric light are so muchover gas in other respects than mere lighting that itcan never stay alongside of it.… … It This was first made by Wallace 5c Sons, and laterperfected by Edward Miller & Co. The great thing, about the discovery of petroleumwas the fact that it afforded in the devices that weremade to burn it opportunities for decoration hithertounobtainable. Soft-hued and shaded lamps could…
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