Word: compression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is plenty of scrap in the U.S.-abandoned automobiles rusting in wrecker graveyards, broken plows rusting in farmers' barns, old bedsprings and buckets lying on dumps at the edge of every small town. The problem is how to sort the scrap, compress it for shipping, move it to market...
...announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600 its gaseous volume. Heated by steam, the liquid...