MILLIONS IN A SMELL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 13, 12 February 1907, Page 7

MILLIONS IN A SMELL.

“Xo difficulty in saying off-hand what is the most urgently-neodod invention in our line of business,’’, snapped the gas-fitter ; It’s an im-| proved incandescent mantle—one that) will hist, say, for six months, orl longer, without deteriorating, and' that, will not crumble to pieces, as dO'-s the present one, at the slight-; esl jar. "Wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, too, awaits the man who can invent a cheap and effective method of imparling a sufficiently pungent odour to water-gas. This gas can he produced at a cost of less than threepence a thousand feet, and it is a far better illuminant than is coalgas. liut being like coal-gas, poisonous, while. unlike coal-gas, it, is odourless, ii cannot he used to light dwelling-houses, factories, etc., as un escape could not In- detected (as is the case with coal-gas h.v the sense of smell, and fatal aecidents would bo frightfully frequent.”