Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-10 | Page 1 | Natural Gas Knocked Out

NATURAL GAS KNOCKED OUT New and Powerful Illuminant Is Known as Acetylene Acety-lene COST IS MERELY NOMINAL Factories Have Already Been Completed Same Amount of Light Tlmt Js Now FurnialieO For 125 Can Bo Had For Seven Cents It Will Be Of fereil For General Use In a Very Short Time New York March 9Announc mentis ment-is made qf a remarkable discovery of a means of producing illuminating gas at a cost of about 7 cents for the same amount of light as is furnished by ordinary gas at 5125 Factories are already completed and the gas will be offered for general use within a short time It is now used in a house in this city and has been found in every way practicable The new illuminant is acetylene the lowest gas in the series of hydro carbons car-bons which are the foundation of organic chemistry and enter into the composition of many of the most important im-portant products of coal tar and petroleum It is known to chemists as C 2 H 2 and is practically pure carbon car-bon paper