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New and ceconomical Process for producing Light or
Illumination, from Smoke alone.
The numerous discoveries resulting from the spirit of
philosophic research, so generally diffused within these
few years, throughout the most civilised nations of Eu-
rope, have undeniably contributed to promote in a high
degree, the comfort and conveniencies of society. None
however promises to be more beneficial, or of more gene-
ral utility, than a discovery first exhibited at Paris, in
1802, and lately introduced into this country by an in-
genious artist who obtained a knowledge of the secret,
and who has for several months exhibited it to the curio-
sity of the public at the Lyceum in the Strand.
The object of this discovery, which will doubtless form
an important epoch in the annals of domestic ceconomy,
is to produce light without the aid of wax, oil, tallow,
or any combustible now employed for that purpose. The
expence of illumination both to the community in gene-
ral, and to individuals in particular, is most sensibly
felt at the present moment, when the materials employed
for that purpose have attained to an unprecedented price.
The public must therefore feel more deeply interested in
a discovery which tends to reduce that expence to a mere
trifle, and to supply them with a light infinitely superior
to that which they have hitherto been accustomed.
To explain the principle of this important invention,
we shall give directions for making an experiment on
such a scale, that every one may repeat it, and thus sa-
tisfy himself respecting its practicability.—Take a vessel
of any kind capable of resisting fire, into which put some
common coal; the vessel must then be closely covered,
or, in the language of chemistry, hermetically sealed,
leaving in the cover a small aperture, just sufficient to re-
ceive a tube, of any dimensions, say a tobacco-pipe. The
vessel
New and ceconomical Process for producing Light or
Illumination, from Smoke alone.
The numerous discoveries resulting from the spirit of
philosophic research, so generally diffused within these
few years, throughout the most civilised nations of Eu-
rope, have undeniably contributed to promote in a high
degree, the comfort and conveniencies of society. None
however promises to be more beneficial, or of more gene-
ral utility, than a discovery first exhibited at Paris, in
1802, and lately introduced into this country by an in-
genious artist who obtained a knowledge of the secret,
and who has for several months exhibited it to the curio-
sity of the public at the Lyceum in the Strand.
The object of this discovery, which will doubtless form
an important epoch in the annals of domestic ceconomy,
is to produce light without the aid of wax, oil, tallow,
or any combustible now employed for that purpose. The
expence of illumination both to the community in gene-
ral, and to individuals in particular, is most sensibly
felt at the present moment, when the materials employed
for that purpose have attained to an unprecedented price.
The public must therefore feel more deeply interested in
a discovery which tends to reduce that expence to a mere
trifle, and to supply them with a light infinitely superior
to that which they have hitherto been accustomed.
To explain the principle of this important invention,
we shall give directions for making an experiment on
such a scale, that every one may repeat it, and thus sa-
tisfy himself respecting its practicability.—Take a vessel
of any kind capable of resisting fire, into which put some
common coal; the vessel must then be closely covered,
or, in the language of chemistry, hermetically sealed,
leaving in the cover a small aperture, just sufficient to re-
ceive a tube, of any dimensions, say a tobacco-pipe. The
vessel