[PDF] Facts Concerning Industrial Alcohol eBook

Author : Rufus Frost Herrick
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781331942665

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Excerpt from Denatured or Industrial Alcohol: A Treatise on the History, Manufacture, Composition, Uses, and Possibilities of Industrial Alcohol in the Various Countries Permitting Its Use, and the Laws and Regulations Governing the Same, Including the United States With Concise Tables, Methods, And The enactment of legislation by our Congress, June 7, 1906 (permitting the general use of tax-free domestic alcohol, after it has been suitably denatured, for industrial purposes and for light, heat, and power) immediately created a wide-spread interest and inquiry throughout the United States as to the facts relating to this whole matter. This law takes effect January 1, 1907. The scarcity of literature treating the subject of Denatured or Industrial Alcohol is so great that there are practically no books concerning it. This book has therefore been prepared for the above reasons and to supply the facts in answer to the inquiries mentioned. The author had the honor to represent the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry, through their New England sections, in favor of Denatured Alcohol, at the so-called "Free Alcohol" Congressional hearings, held at Washington, D. C., February-March, 1906, on the matter of repealing the internal-revenue tax on domestic alcohol after it had been suitably denatured. The testimony given at these hearings was from a great variety of sources and possessed a highly educational value and interesting character, and was afterwards published by our Government. Many important abstracts from such testimony are given in this book under their appropriate subjects. The author has also availed himself of the large fund of data furnished by the Report of the British Departmental Committee on Industrial Alcohol, presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, March 23, 1905. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.