Illuminating Engineering Society, Association of Public Lighting Engineers (Great Britain) · [London] · leaf 281
ferior burners in capable of being used by the consumer.That condition Avas fulfilled ; but nopower could make the consumer usesuch a burner in the ordinary May,and accordingly, as a matter of fact,he did with something nuich inferiorand cheaper. The ordinary flat-Hamc gas light•was about as… … conunon use. 5 cubic feet of gas perhour might give as little as 7 or 8candle-light, which was getting peri-lously near the complaint line of badgas. Of course, the gas companiesof those days had nothing to do ^\iththe performance of the consumersburners. A Avise legislature fixed the cjuality or…
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