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II. GAS engineers have been under the impression until now that a supply of cold air was favourable to the production of a brilliant flame. This is a misconception, which was very general also as regards the combustion of solid fuel in furnaces, until it was disproved by Stirling, by Neilson, and by the introduction of the Regenerative Gas Furnace. The “duplex burner” owes its brilliancy to the heating effect of the one burner upon the other; and my brother, Mr. Frederick Siemens, has more recently constructed a burner in which the flame of the gas is reversed in its action in order to heat in its descent the ascending current of flame-supporting air.
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Gas and Electricity as Heating Agents 1 . Nature 23, 351–353 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023351a0
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