The Design, Construction and Comparison of Several Types of Automatic Power Plant Smoke Indicators

Citation

Stert, Arthur (1917) The Design, Construction and Comparison of Several Types of Automatic Power Plant Smoke Indicators. Bachelor's thesis, California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/15cn-b763. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12052024-225855041

Abstract

The progress of civilization which has increased, more and more, the demands for power, has been heretofore a selfish commercial development. Now public comfort is beginning to be considered of sufficient consequence to necessitate the discontinuance of obnoxious power production. The increasing black clouds of suffocating smoke streaming over cities from every factory stack must be a thing of the past. No longer will the people stand for having their buildings blackened and disintegrated, their vegetables blighted and their lungs polluted.

The following is a summary of literature on the subject of smoke abatement as compiled by the Chicago Smoke Commission.

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