Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000
- ISBN-10
- 0805798307
- ISBN-13
- 9780805798302
- Category
- Gas appliances
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Macmillan Reference USA
- Author
- Christopher James Castaneda
Description
Discusses the early technical and entrepreneurial activities that transformed gas from a waste product into a viable energy source.
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