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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1910 



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ALCOHOL 



Its Manufacture 

 Its Denaturization 

 Its Industrial Use 



The Cost of Manufacturing Denaturized Alcohol in Germany and 

 German Methods of Denaturization are discussed by Consui-cenerai 



Frank H. Mason in Scientific American Supplement 1550. 



The Use, Cost and Efficiency of Alcohol as a Fuel for Gas Engines 



are ably explained by H. Diederichs in Scientific American Suppte- 

 ment 1596. Many clear diagrams accompany the text, Tiie article con- 

 siders the fuel value and physical properties of alcohol, and gives details 

 of the alcohol engine wherever they may be different from those of a 

 £asoIine or crude oil motor 



In Scientific American Supplement 1581 the Production Of In- 

 dustrial Alcohol and its Use in Explosive Motors are treated at length, 

 valuable statistics being gi\'en of the cost of manufacturing alcohol from 

 farm products and using it in engines. 



French Methods of Denaturization constitute the subject of a good 



article published in Scientific American Supplement 1599. 



How Industrial Alcohol is Made and Used is told very fully and 



dearly in No. 3, VoL 95, of the Scientific American. 



The most complete treatise on the Modem Manufacture of Alcohol, 



explaining thoroughly the chemical principles which underlie the pro- 

 cess without too many wearisome technical phrases, and describing and 

 illustraliiig all the apparatus required in an alcohol plant is published in 

 Scientific American Supplements 150?, 1604 and 1605. The 

 article is by L. Baudry de Saunier, the well-known French authority. 



In Supplements 1607. 1608, 1609 we publish a digest Of the rules 

 and regulations under which the U. S Internal Revenue will permit 

 the manufacture and denaturation of tax free alcohol. 



A comparison of the Use Of Alcohol and Gasoline in Farm Engines 



is given in Scientific American Supplements 1634 and 1635 by 

 Prof. Charles E. Lucke and S. M. Woodward, 



The Manufacture, Denaturing and the Technical and Chemical 



Utilization of Alcohol is ably discussed in the Scientific American 

 Supplements 1636 and 1637 by M. Klar and F. H. Meyer, both ex 

 perts in the chemistry and distillation of alcohol. Illustrations of stills 

 and plants accompany the text 



The Sources of Industrial Alcohol, that is the Farm Products from 

 which alcohol is distilled, are enumerated by Dr. H. W. Wiley in 

 Scientific American Supplements 1611 and 1612 and their relative 

 alcohol content compared. 



The Distillation and Rectification of Alcohol is the title of a splendid 



article by the lateMax Maercker (the greatest authority on alcohol) ^\i\i- 

 \\5\ieAin Scientific American Supplements 1627 and 1628. Dia- 

 grams of the various types of stills in common use are used as illustrations 



In Scientific American Supplement 1613 the Uses Of Industrial 



Alcohol in the Arts and in the Home are discussed. 



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