Young also pro- world a great and growing industry. jected the Addiewell works, on a very extensive scale. The to dryness. In this way the hydrocarbons are once more Mr. Young began life as a land leased for their require- joiner, learning his trade in ments extended to some three his father’s… … be got from a piece of soap dred large cast iron vessels, or wax. On reaching the pit with a capacity varying from driven off in the form of gas, which, when condensed, yields bank, the shale is tumbled into a crusher, in passing through 3,000 to 500 gallons. Upwards of 1,000 hands are employed…
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