Excerpt from A Handbook of Practical Gas-Fitting: A Treatise on the Distribution of Gas in Service Pipes, the Use of Coal Gas, and the Best Means of Economizing Gas From Main to BurnerI take this opportunity of thanking the many firms who have so kindly allowed me the use of electros of their specialities. My thanks are also due to Mr G. Pepper and other gentlemen, to whom I am indirectly very much indebted, for valuable information, the sources of which are invariably acknowledged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.