WHAT TWO PENNYWORTH OF GAS WILL DO.

North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHAT TWO PENNYWORTH OF GAS WILL DO.

Thirty-seven cubic feet of gas, valued at no more than two pence, and weighing about a pound and a quarter, can generate about one pound of water when burned, and about nineteen cubic feet of carbonic acid. It can heat thirty gallons of water from 50 to. 110 degrees for a bath, or it can boil eight gallons of water in good kettles, and make tea for sixty-four persons. It.can work a one-horse power gas-engine for one hour, or lift a weight of eighty-eight tons ten feet high, doing the work jof six men for one hour.. It can i melt ten pounds of Iron, and- make a casting in twenty minutes, which ordinarily would require two hours and thirty pounds of coke. It can braze a metal joint in two. minutes, which would require twenty minutes in a forges If burned in-a six inch flue for ventilation purposes, it can induce 80,000 cubic feet of pure air. It can give you a brilliant light (incandescent), of fifty candle power for nine hours. • It can, in a good radiating stove, comfortably warm a room sixteen feet square for an hour. It can easily cook a dinner for eight persons.