Oil Shale History
code: 215936
Description
File containing mainly photocopies of articles related to the history of the Scottish Shale Oil industry and published originally between 1913 and 1940. The folder is divided into sections: Paraffin Young; Oil Shales, monographs on mineral resources; 75 years of oil shale mining; revival in Scottish Shale Oil Industry; Scottish Shale Oil Industry, report by accountants; History of the Oil Shale Industry; Production of Oils from Cannel; The oil shales of Australia; the retorting of oil shale in Scotland; manufacture of paraffin wax from petroleum; Davidson's Rotary Retort; treatment of oil shale by hydrogenation; oil shale, an historical, technical and economical study. In addition there is a copy of the Story of the Forth by H M Cadell (1913) and a typed history of the industry (unidentified author).
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