Breaking Swansea's Stranglehold (1840s-1860s) The explosive growth of the railways in Britain during the 1840s created a need for new source of copper for boiler plates, etc. Serendipitously, 400-ton boulders of native copper were discovered in upstate Michigan, heralding …
Read MoreBreaking Swansea's Stranglehold (1840s-1860s) The explosive growth of the railways in Britain during the 1840s created a need for new source of copper for boiler plates, etc. Serendipitously, 400-ton boulders of native copper were discovered in upstate Michigan, heralding …
Read MoreJune 1. Steam-boiler in dye-house of Thomas Gaffney & Co., 2430 Collins Street, exploded, causing the death of three, and injuring five others. Loss, $31,000. Children's Sanitarium at Point Airy (Windmill Island) opened for the season. All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Brown and Bockius Streets, Bridesburg, struck by lightning and damaged by fire.
Read MoreDistrict heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating.The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels or biomass, but heat-only boiler stations, geothermal heating
Read MoreApr 26, 2014 · Here is a "flat" of "parlor" and two pitch-dark coops called bedrooms. Truly, the bed is all there is room for. The family tea-kettle is on the stove, doing duty for the time being as a wash-boiler. By night it will have returned to its proper use again, a practical illustration of how poverty in "the Bend" makes both ends meet.
Read MoreDistrict heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating.The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels or biomass, but heat-only boiler stations, geothermal heating
Read More