The Developing of Power 



vapors and again to liquids that will vaporize and furnish 

 an explosive gas the same as natural gas will do. This 

 product we call gasoline. It was learned that gasoline may 

 be transported in barrels or tanks and in many other ways 

 to regions far removed from any gas line and there used in 

 the cylinders of internal combustion engines and thus the 

 automobile and other gas propelled conveyances came into 

 being. The searchers also discovered that natural gas is 

 composed of a series of gases and that some of these may 

 be reduced to a liquid that will instantly vaporize upon being 

 exposed to the air and that this liquid may be carried in con- 

 tainers to all parts of the world and there used. The com- 

 mon name of this liquid is butane and it is now coming into 

 common use In regions far removed from the place of its 

 origin. 



A hundred other similar uses might be mentioned, but 

 these are sufficient to show that industry develops with the 

 development of human thought and like the growth in 

 organic life, development is a slow changing process. No 

 one knows what future devices may yet be developed to 

 which the explosive power of the hydrocarbon particles of 

 crude oil and natural gas may be applied, but within the 

 memory of those still living, It has wrought the greatest 

 change of any natural resource ever known. In its brief 

 period of time It has changed the habits and customs and 

 manner of living of the entire civilized world and has done 

 more in transportation to eliminate time and to shorten 

 space than any other natural resource has done. It has 

 changed darkness into light for multiplied millions through- 

 out the civilized world. It is lubricating the bearings of 



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