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AT the ordinary meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers on Tuesday, January 10, an interesting paper on “Gas-Power for Electric Lighting” was read by Mr. J. Emerson Dowson. The author stated that in Great Britain alone gas-engines had been sold for electric lighting, exceeding in the aggregate 7000 horse-power, and that in Germany engines were used for about 1100 arc- and 90,000 glow- lamps. It was, however, only within the last few years that gas-engines of large size had been before the world in a practical form. The varying load-factor in central stations was a serious trouble, and the author hoped to show that much of the present loss, due to fuel, water, and wages, would be avoided if gas-power were used instead of steam-power.
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Gas Power for Electric Lighting. Nature 47, 284–285 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047284a0
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