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FIG. PACK 



63. Methane Molecule on 224 



64. Benzene Molecule .... 224 



65. Benzene Molecule 224 



66. Brownian Movement : Paths of three separate granules . 234 



67. Linde Plant for separating atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen, 



North- Western Cyanamide Company, Ltd., at Odda, Norway facing 252 



68. Diagram of the Linde Plant at the Works of the North- 



Western Cyanamide Company, Ltd., at Odda, Norway . 253 



69. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Knitting the Hose . 276 



70. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Cutting the Hose . 276 



71. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Impregnating Mantles 277 



72. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Drying Impregnated 



Mantles ,,277 



73. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Seasoning Upright 



Mantles . . 278 



74. Voiker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Dipping and Drying . ,, 278 



75. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Sewing Inverted 



Mantles 279 



76. Volker Lighting Corporation, Limited : Stamp Batteries . 279 



77. Petrolia, Canada : Three-Pole Derrick used for cleaning and 



repairing Pumping Wells. ....!. 282 



78. Gurieff, near mouth of Ural River, S. Russia 282 



79. Triumph Hill on the Alleghany River, Pennsylvania (1885) . 283 



80. Spindle Top, near Beaumont, Texas (1903) 283 



81. N. End McKittrick, near Bakersfield, California (1903) . . 284 



82. Binegadi, near Baku, Caspian : Amber or Earth Storage 



Reservoir containing crude oil in foreground ,, 284 



83. Balakhany, near Baku, Caspian ......,, 285 



84. Tank Cars on Railway Sidings near Black Town, Baku . 286 



85. Astrachan : Tank Barges on the Volga . . . 287 



86. Astrachan : Tank Storage near the Volga . . . 287 



87. Wells at Moreni, Roumania 288 



88. Moreni (Roumania) : View on the American Property . . 288 



89. Galicia : Derrick and Engine Shed , 289 



90. Gurieff near Mouth of Ural River, S. Russia . 289 



91. Grosnic (S. Russia) Oil Fountain : Akhwerdorff, No. 7 Foun- 



tain Spouting ......... 290 



92. Grosnic (S Russia) Derrick after destruction by oil fountain : 



Akhwerdorff, No. 7 . 291 



93. Aungban Yo (Burma) 292 



94. In the Yenoungyoung District (Burma) : Khodary Bridge . 292 



95. Louisiana : Storage Tanks 293 



96. Stem-wheel Steam Tow-boat on Panuco River, Mexico, used 



for towing oil barges . . . . . . . 293 



97. Louisiana : General View of Stills 294 



98. Louisiana : Stills and Furnaces 294 



99. The Beehive Coke Oven on 299 



100. Coppee Coke Oven ,,300 



101. Carburetted Water Gas Plant : Gas Light and Coke Company facing 300 



102. Tar Stills . 306 



103. Continuous Tar Distillation Plant 307 



104. Hird's Continuous Tar Distillation Plant . . . 308 



105. Naphtha Still with Rectifying Column 309 



106. Benzene Rectifying Plant . . . . . .on 309 



107. Aniline Still . , . 314 



108. Indigo : Sowing the Seed . . . facing 320 



