Word: gas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greater illuminating surface and consumes only one quarter as much power as the filament carbon, and gives four fold the amount of light for the same power, requiring at the same time a very small wire, thereby avoiding all danger from fire. It is fifty percent. cheaper than the gas that is being used in Cambridge at this time. The Incandescent lamp constructed with the carbon tube or cylinder, gained great renown at the world's fair of electricity at Vienna last autumn and is considered to be the best electric light in existence, adapted to indoor and out-door...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Is it from a spirit of economy that all the gas jets in the halls of the college dormitories are extinguished after eleven o'clock, or is it from the dislike to light which is one of the characteristics of the college buildings, shown elsewhere in the case of that gymnasium lamp and also the lamp at Memorial. To return from the theatre or a call in Boston after the fatal hour of eleven, and be obliged to grope one's way up stairs, does not leave one in a comfortable state of mind,-or of body...
...time during which the gymnasium is open in the evening is certainly short enough; but that almost half of this time should be rendered useless for some exercises, because the gas is not turned up until about a quarter of nine is certainly not a necessary evil...
...maintaining this department by such an improvement. The collection of books in the alcoves and on the shelves of Gore Hall is indeed very valuable and it would be a lasting shame to have it destroyed or even to run any risk of destruction. There is no question that gas is slightly dangerous when used by students in such an inflammable tinderbox as the main hall of Gore. But the electric light would give no cause of alarm on this head and would be much better than gas in every way. It would give a better light, less heat...
...Gas...