Description
Florio, A. Dietzgen’s Field Book No. 403, Kept by A. Florio in the Construction Department of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, from January 20, 1928 to May 5, 1928, for the Greenpoint Gasworks. Manuscript engineer’s notebook, graphite, except for page 25 partially in ink, with one schematic hand-colored. Collation: [i; 1-108; 110 – 157; xv] 18 cm, Publisher’s leather over stiff paper boards. Inside front and back covers have a distance chart from the center of the roadway for cross-sectioning. Pages 1 – 86 are written in English. Pages 87 – 92 are in Italian. Pages 93 – 108 are in English. Pages 109 – 145 are unused, blank. Pages 122 – 125 have been removed. There is an annotation on p. 146. Pages 147 – 154 are unused. Page 155 has recorded measurements in green and black ink. Page 156 has a schedule of activities in English and Italian indicating on which day of every month certain reports are made. The fourteen pre-printed tables provided by Dietzgen are their railroad curve and reduction tables. Slope reductions and trigonometrical formulas are also given. Condition good.
This notebook was kept for the Greenpoint Gasworks when coal gas or “town gas” was produced and piped to customers of the distribution system. Prior to the discovery of natural gas, coal gasification plants such as the Greenpoint gasworks produced gas from coal (or coke as this engineer’s notebook confirms).
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