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Scientific American, Vol. 74, No. 17 (April 1896) (1896)

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ever, it is proposed tosupply acetylene gas to the consumer in cylinders, in aliquefied state, under a pressure variously estimated at750 to 1,000 pounds. It is stated that a cylinder of gasfour inches in diameter, four feet high, will containenough gas in a liquefied state to supply an ordinaryten… … Fig. 2.-THE ENGINE READY FOB OFEBATION, sary to reduce the 1,000 pounds pressure in the cylin-der to a small fraction of a pound at the burners. Thisis done by a Pintsch valve, a rather complicated me-chanism. Two important questions present themselves atthis point: First. What would be the result…

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