Pintsch gas
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Pintsch gas
Named after Richard Pintsch (1840–1919), German inventor
Example Sentences
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The same gas, known as Pintsch gas, has been used in a less pure form to light railroad cars and farmers' stoves in this country for a decade.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pintsch gas, used to some extent in railroad passenger-cars in this country, is an oil-gas produced by the destructive distillation of petroleum or other mineral oil in retorts heated externally.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew
The Pintsch gas is prepared by the distillation of heavy oils in a furnace composed of two superposed retorts.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various
He had made most handsome passenger-cars with full equipment of brakes, vestibules, Pintsch gas, and so on, and had painted on their sides "The Great Pullman Line."
From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore
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