Wallace Rice Knihy

Excerpt from 75 Years of Gas Service in Chicago The next day a contract was entered into between the Com pany and George F Lee 86 Company of Philadelphia, for laying feet of.mains, prov1ding gas meters, and building a manu facturing plant on the ground purchased at Monroe and Market Street, which was eventually carried through to Adams There were to be a brick retort house to contain a bench of seven furnaces, a brick building for the purifying apparatus, station meter, and governor, which was to house the counting-room as well, and a gas holder With a capacity of cubic feet, which was to be the capacity of the plant every twenty-four hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.