Piute Chieftain | 1916-08-31 | Page 3 | How Gas Jet Originated

HOW GAS JET originated emergency use 0 womans comans thimble gives an inventor the idea A womans comans thimble Is said to have been the means of suggesting the first gas burner william murdock the inventor first firs t burned the gas simply as a flame from the end of a pipe one day in on an emergency lie he wished to stop the illumination hurriedly looking around for something murdock seized his eifes thimble and thrust it over the light which was immediately extinguished there was a strong odor of gas however says the popular science monthly and the experimenter applied a light to the thimble discovering that etwas it waa full of holes through which tiny jets of flame appeared the importance of the result was that the illumination from those two or three tiny jets was much brighter than had been given by the great flare from the end of the pipe acting on the principle which this chance discovery revealed he constructed what was known ns as the C cockspur burner