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Excerpt from Lighting by Acetylene: A Treatise for the Practical Lighting Engineer, Containing Elementary Information and Details for Those About to Take Up the Work The lighting engineer who takes up Acetylene will now or very soon find a wide and profitable field for this branch of his business, provided he goes the right way to work. The light is good; the process of making simple; and those who have studied and become experienced with this new commercial illuminant can and do rightfully say that it is perfect in a general and very broad sense. Acetylene is an explosive gas, differing little from coal gas in this respect, and there have been accidents; but in practically every case they are distinctly traceable to either dense ignorance or carelessness; and, considering all things, their number has been few. Where trouble of a real kind has arisen, it has been in the generators placed on the market. Of course a good generator is the outcome of experience, and bad ones may be expected at the beginning; but makers will not always see that their machines are bad, and the result is a more widespread condemnation of the gas than would otherwise be the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.