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SECTION 5 of the Gas Regulation Act, 1920, requires that, in certain cases, apparatus for testing towns gas “shall include a calorimeter for the production of a continuous record of the calorific value of the gas which is being supplied.” During the interim period of development of a suitable and satisfactory recorder, the statutory testing of the calorific power of gas has, in accordance with the specification of the Gas Referees, been done in practically all cases by determinations of calorific power made at specified periods with a Boys calorimeter. The cost and elaborate procedure at present necessitated by this method of testing have become a serious burden particularly in small country places, and with the view of reducing these difficulties Prof. C. V. Boys has designed a simple equipment which he described at the meeting of the Institution of Gas Engineers on June 10 last. The apparatus is illustrated in Fig. 1.
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THOMAS, J. Developments in Gas Calorimetry. Nature 116, 375–376 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116375a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116375a0