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Updated: June 28, 2025
Townsend, I look to you to be on hand to-night; I am called away by the Water-Gas Company." Then, with enthusiasm up to blood-heat, aroused by this mark of confidence, I used to set to, and scissor and write till three o'clock, while Mr. Watch talked water-gas over brandy and water, and drew his thirty dollars punctually on Saturdays.
Siemens used gas, distilled from coal and burnt in his well known regenerative furnace. Deville experimented with petroleum on two locomotives running on the Paris and Strassburg Railroad. Selwyn experimented with creosote in a small steam yacht, and under the boilers of steamship Oberlin. Holland experimented with water-gas in the furnace of a locomotive running on the Long Island Railroad.
=Carbonic Oxide.= This is one of the most poisonous of gases. It is evolved in the process of burning charcoal and coke in stoves or furnaces. Water-gas, obtained by passing steam over heated coke, contains 40 per cent. of the substance, the remainder being chiefly hydrogen. It forms the chief part of the deadly 'choke damp' after an explosion in a mine.
I have purchased more than one "perpetual motion" myself. Many persons will remember Mr. Paine "The Great Shot-at" as he was called, from his story that people were constantly trying to kill him and his water-gas. There have been other water gases too, which were each going to show us how to set the North River on fire, but something or other has always broken down just at the wrong moment.
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