Pacific service magazine . is process was described in a paperread before the Pacific Coast Gas Asso-ciation in September, 1912, and credit fororiginal development work in oxy-acetylene welding was given Mr. Jonesby the Panama-Pacific International Ex-position in the award of a diploma andgold medal. During the last six years he has devotedhimself to the improvement of the processof manufacturing oil gas. In collabora-tion with his father he developed thenewest process and apparatus for themanufacture of gas from crude oil, whichis patented in the names of E. C. andL. B. Jones and has contribu
Pacific service magazine . is process was described in a paperread before the Pacific Coast Gas Asso-ciation in September, 1912, and credit fororiginal development work in oxy-acetylene welding was given Mr. Jonesby the Panama-Pacific International Ex-position in the award of a diploma andgold medal. During the last six years he has devotedhimself to the improvement of the processof manufacturing oil gas. In collabora-tion with his father he developed thenewest process and apparatus for themanufacture of gas from crude oil, whichis patented in the names of E. C. andL. B. Jones and has contributed so much Pacific Service Magazine 127 to the success of the Gas Department ofPacific Service. Much of this work wasdescribed in a paper read in September,1913, before the Pacific Coast Gas Asso-ciation, for which Mr. Jones was awardedthe gold medal of the Association. Mr. Jones is a member of the PacificCoast Gas Association, the American Gas D. C, and will probably soon be placedin an engineer officers training Leon B. Jones. Institute and the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science, is ajunior member of the American Societyof Mechanical Engineers and a directorof the Pacific Coast Gas Association. He has devoted much time and thoughtrecently to the extraction of toluol frommanufactured gas, and has been activein assisting the gas defense service ofthe United States Army. In this branchof the national service he has had op-portunity to receive an officers commis-sion, but he felt that the place for red-blooded American boys was at the frontand the proper way to get there was tostart as a private soldier, although hiswork for the Pacific Gas and ElectricCompany was such as made him all butindispensable, practically exempting himfrom military service. He is onlytwenty-eight years old, and so was notentitled to take the recent examinationfor engineer officers. In enlisting in the Army of the UnitedStates, he leaves behind a charming wifeand a little son, bo
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