. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. ed last year in the great coke fieldsof Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ala-bama and other states. It is this metal-lurgical coke which has been such aprime factor in the countrys industrial By-product Coke Plant at Gary, Ind. development, for use in large quantitiesin the blast furnace, the foundry and thesmelter. Everybody who has traveled throughthe coke making states has been struckwith the great lines of coke ovens pour-ing out thick smoke and flames, and atnight lighting up the sky with their redglare—picturesque and breathing of in-dustry an
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. ed last year in the great coke fieldsof Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ala-bama and other states. It is this metal-lurgical coke which has been such aprime factor in the countrys industrial By-product Coke Plant at Gary, Ind. development, for use in large quantitiesin the blast furnace, the foundry and thesmelter. Everybody who has traveled throughthe coke making states has been struckwith the great lines of coke ovens pour-ing out thick smoke and flames, and atnight lighting up the sky with their redglare—picturesque and breathing of in-dustry and prosperity, but in realityhighly wasteful. Nearly 500,000,000tons of coke have been made in thismanner since 1880, and $725,000,000worth of by-products have been totallywasted. The modern by-product ovens, on theother hand, emit no smoke or gas. In1912 the by-products recovered fromthe 1,000,000 tons of coke produced inby-product ovens consisted of 54,491,-000,000 cubic feet of gas, 94,000,000 gal-lons of tar and more than $9,000,000 „--V. 1371 1372 Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance
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