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Underground Meter Gas Machine Company
| Name | Underground Meter Gas Machine Company |
| Ortssitz | Newark (New Jersey) |
| Straße | Commercial Street 14 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Gasapparatefabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Oakes Tirill, Proprietor; Factory, No. 14 Commercial Street; Office, No. 39 Dey Street, New York. |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 730] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1862 |
Gründung des Ursprungsunternehmens in Boston |
| 1871 |
Gründung in Newark und Verlegung von Boston |
| Produkt |
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Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Gasapparate |
1882 |
[Industries of N.J. (1882)] |
1882 |
[Industries of N.J. (1882)] |
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| ZEIT | 1882 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | This is the only enterprise of its class in the city of Newark and has been established here since 1871, having been removed from Boston, where it was first founded in 1862. The factory is a floor 60x180 feet, divided into several departments, and furnished with all the best appliances, lathes, tin, sheet-iron, and machinists' tools and machinery, and operated by a steam engine of twelve-horse power, and gives steady employment to twelve experienced hands. Tirrill's Patent Underground Meter Gas Machine is the only product of the works. The machine is used for the making of gas for hotels, public buildings, churches, and private residences, and consists of a generator which is intended to be buried underground at a given distance from the building intended to be lighted. It is connected with the surface by pipes for filling with the fluid for making the gas, for admission of air, and for indicating the amount of fluid in the generator, and this generator is connected with the meter in the house by a pipe, the meter being a machine operated by a weight, cord, and pulley, and by this contrivance the service-pipes of the house are supplied. The machine is self-acting and is in operation only when the gas is turned on in the house and stops the moment it is turned off. The operation of making the gas is entirely automatic: the generator is charged with the required fluid, the burners in the house are opened, the weight begins its downward course, the meter exhausts the air from the connections to the generator, and the inlet-pipe admits more, which, passing through the fluid, becomes charged with carbon, then filling the service-pipes makes gas and burns and gives a brilliant light. Close the burners and the whole operation ceases, but is ready for use at any moment. The machine is certified by the New York Board of Underwriters to be free from all dangers under any circumstance and is safe at all times. It is simple in construction, and entirely reliable and durable. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 730] |
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