Mechanics of the household; a course of study devoted to domestic machinery and household mechanical appliances (1918)
Keene, E. S. (Edward Spencer), b. 1864 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc.; · leaf 125
rbon monoxide. Sewer gas often contains, from es-caping illuminating gas, sufficient carbon monoxide to producethe poisoning effect characteristic of that gas but the possibilityof danger is quite remote. The leakage of sewer gas is detectedby the sense of smell sooner than in almost any other… … Fig. 112.—Method of removing ob-structions from a stopped drain-pipe. PLUMBING 115 To the average person the term sewer gas conveys the impres-sion of a particularly loathsome form of vaporous contagion,capable of distributing every form of communicable disease. Tothe scientific mind it means no…
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