G. GIBBS.

Sunswick, January, 1818.


Art. XXI. On a new Means of producing Heat and Light.

Art. XXI. On a new Means of producing Heat and Light, with an Engraving, by J. L. Sullivan, Esq. of Boston.

Boston, May 7, 1818.

To Professor Silliman.

Sir,
If the following account of a method of using tar and steam as fuel, recently invented by Mr. Samuel Morey, should be found sufficiently interesting to occupy a place in the Journal of Science, I am sensible its usefulness will be much extended through that medium of information.