| Author |
Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880-1924 |
| LoC No. |
20002995
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| Title |
Millions from Waste
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| Original Publication |
United States: J. B. Lipincott Company,1920.
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| Contents |
Waste: its relation to commerce and national economy -- The German conquest of waste -- Salvage from the army swill-tub -- The reclamation of military organic waste -- Invention in its application to waste recovery -- Saving the scrap from the sea -- Winning wealth from slaughter-house offal, condemned meat, bones, and blood -- Turning wastes into paper -- Supplying industries from the dust-bin -- Living on waste -- Potato waste as an asset to industry -- Converting nitrogenous refuse into soap -- Turning old oil into new -- By-products from the waste-bin -- The lifting magnet as a waste-developing force -- Reclaiming 321,000,000 gallons of liquid fuel from coal -- Fertilizers from wastes -- Saving the sewage sludge -- House-building with wastes -- The future of the waste problem; possibilities for further development.
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| Credits |
deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
TP: Technology: Chemical technology
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| Subject |
Waste products
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| Subject |
Salvage (Waste, etc.)
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
67837 |
| Release Date |
Apr 15, 2022 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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