The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 736
it being a matter ofnecessity that they must be sent to the gas-engineer for filling. The best size for gas bags is 36x24x24 inches in thewedge, of six cubic feet in capacity. If required for the oxy-calcium light, with only a pressure of half a hundredweight,the material may be of thin quality,… … be recognised in a dimly-lighted room; and it may here bementioned that each tap of the jet is lacquered bright andblack, to correspond to the colour of the respective bags. If hydrogen is used instead of house-gas, then two blackbags will be required for a long entertainment, as hydrogenand oxygen…
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