ABSTRACT
Coal gas gave rise to an illustrious progeny in the nineteenth century. This chapter discusses the uses of this coal by-product, created from the heating of coal, for the purposes of illumination, a use that was very rapidly adopted for lighting both for private premises and for public street lamps. The facts and results communicated in this chapter, are founded upon observations made, during the winter, at the cotton manufactory of Messrs. The whole of the rooms of this cotton mill, which is the most extensive in the United Kingdom, as well as its counting-houses and store-rooms, and the adjacent dwelling-house of Mr. Lee, are lighted with the gas from coal. The quantity of light is necessarily liable to some variation so as to be perfectly equal at all times. The burners are of two kinds: the one is upon the principle of the Argand lamp; the other is a small curved tube with a conical end.
