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Gas-Generating Apparatus. (open access)

Gas-Generating Apparatus.

Patent for a gas-generator, especially generating acetylene, "with uniformity of flow of gas and at a uniform pressure" (lines 15-16). It is simple and can be constructed in many sizes. "This apparatus is especially adapted for generating gas and mixing it with air from that class of chemicals that generate gas from water by decomposition thereof and by affinity for oxygen or hydrogen" (lines 25-30).
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary
System: The Portal to Texas History