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...principle that when electrical energy meets resistance it is converted into heat energy. Well known is the Ajax Northrup high frequency furnace which increases the heat energy by creating a current in the material to be melted. Using this principle, Engineer Chesnut made an experimental furnace of 1 cu. ft. capacity. The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well. To set up the resistance he packed the crucible in lampblack-an obstinate conductor of electricity. The current was carried through a copper coil. The outside of the furnace...
Along the Mississippi near Vicksburg the War Department has contracted with 19 different companies to move 30,000,000 cu. yd. of earth for new levees at a cost of $6,000,000. On this unskilled, backbreaking work some 4,500 men, black and white, have been employed. They live mostly in contractors' camps, often deal with company commissaries...
...Although it takes 15,000 to 25,000 cu. ft. of natural gas to do the work of one ton of coal, according to George I. Rhodes, gas engineer of the engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, gas has already supplanted 10% of the 475,000,000 tons of bituminous coal annually mined...
...will dominate the field by ownership of 50% of Lycoming United stock, followed by 30% for Columbia Gas, 20% for Benedum-Trees. The market Lycoming United will serve is the Syracuse area, active industrial district directly north of Tioga, where there is a potential annual demand for 10 billion cu. ft. (Buffalo, second biggest city in New York, has had natural gas service for several years from the Wayne-Dundee field in the western part of the State. New York City is still without any natural gas connections...
...rich Tioga County (Pa.) gas field has a possible flow of about 350 million cu. ft. daily, proven reserves of between 125 and 135 billion cu. ft. Until last week the competitive interests who owned the gas had found no adequate market. A pooling of interests is now under way to market some of the gas which will be carried in a 20-in. pipe now abuilding...