illuminating gas

The smell of illuminating gas was coming from the inner room.

A window was open in her bedroom but illuminating gas flowed from an opened jet.

He succeeded, and was thus the first, in this country at least, to use illuminating gas for balloon purposes.

The bottom is connected by rubber tubing to a source of illuminating gas.

For twenty-seven years the company held a monopoly on the manufacture of illuminating gas in the city.

George Dixon's pilot plant exploded in 1760, setting back the production of illuminating gas a few years.

The ethylene had been in the greenhouse illuminating gas.

He also engaged in the manufacture of illuminating gas and of coke.

Merrick took a deep interest in public affairs and was instrumental to the introduction of illuminating gas into Philadelphia.

Hydrogen was abundant in coal and illuminating gas.

Instantly, Clyde smelled the heavy, overpowering fumes of illuminating gas.

James Throckmorton had been asphyxiated by illuminating gas.

In 1860, Lenoir successfully created a double-acting engine that ran on illuminating gas at 4% efficiency.

Its primary product was illuminating gas (so-called because it was used for lighting) manufactured from coal.

He had not forgotten his chemistry and he knew that twenty minutes of illuminating gas should have been sufficient to make him lose consciousness.

As he held the parchment close to the beeswax candles, he wondered how far the University's research into illuminating gas had gone.

In the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century oil shale gas was used as illuminating gas.

The fuel was still Illuminating Gas just as Lenoir's and his own atmospheric engines had used.

It used a sliding flame gateway for ignition of its fuel - a mixture of illuminating gas and air.

It is an abundant ingredient of ordinary illuminating gas, and is the first member of the paraffin series.

Creep had tapped some hidden pipe, for The Shadow could scent the odor of ordinary illuminating gas.

Maybe illuminating gas.

The Troy Gas Light Company first supplied illuminating gas in 1848.

Illuminating gas was used for gas lighting, as it produces a much brighter light than natural gas or water gas.

Illuminating gas was much less toxic than other forms of coal-gas, but less could be produced from a given quantity of coal.