The Modern bicycle and its accessories; a complete reference book for rider, dealer, and maker (1898)
Schwalbach, Alexander, Wilcox, Julius, Commercial advertiser association, New York · New York, The Commercial advertiser association · leaf 135
nproduced only in small quantities as a lab-oratory product by tedious and costly pro-cesses. Acetylene, when burning, gives a flame ofintense brilliancy, and owing to its rich-ness it can only be consumed in smallburners. It possesses not only great lumi-nosity, but great diffusive qualities.… … 114 KLONDIKE (KEROSENE),proportions it can be detonated, and thesame can be said of every known gas; butin a bicycle lamp, containing an ounce anda half, or two ounces at the utmost, of thecalcium carbide, there cannot be producedenough gas to cause an explosion. Calcium carbide is a hard, porous,…
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