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Scientific American, Vol. 27, No. 19 (November 1872) (1872)

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informed, may be erected in the vicinity of New York for three and igniting the gas in a paroxysm, it affords a magnificent thousand dollars, or in some other sections of the country spectacle—a fountain of water and fire which brilliantly il- Spontaneous Ignition of Oiled Cotton. for five hundred… … either architect or professional tor oil, which is not an ether of gly- UPPER STORY. GROUND FLOOR. builder. cerin, takes two days to ignite spontaneously. Sperm oil, too, does not ignite; and the made of the gas escaping from these wells, but it is estimated petroleums actually stop the spontaneous…

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