Word: melter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Snow Melter. At Long Island City, a steam roller rumbled and puffed through the snowy streets. But it was a new kind of steam roller. Its front looked more like a big boiler, which did not weigh heavily on the ground but pressed against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...