Show wo arn goethe the great german poet visit visits forest and discover discovers the philosopher of coal told in bight right sketched chea by JOHN RAYMOND no ill 0 THE philosopher OF COAL in 1771 there lived in the forest near in germany a chemist named stauf he was an eccentric old man who had an idea far ahead of his times that many things beside coke could be obtained in the combustion of bituminous coal 4 stauf tauf had constructed a number of tv ivens ens over a burning mine mine and treated oal so that he obtained oil oll pitch coke d 1 soot that was quite a forward ap and although he lived hyed in th the dahs of a forest the great minds q a 1 E c heard of his work jak o 0 himself made a a qi ID 11 ns of the aar a chai cheoff and an dahis ai a is autobiography ate A stink t mg tiamen t on aaa ai tha h bru fock mn RN e andr ald glab 1 4 act Q pour hia his comp I 1 lipian car ear the lean td 0 C t 17 it it man with a hoe shot on dw foo C go odi 06 a slipper on the other 4 s hanging down ana and up in vain dragged 1 0 jhc jibe mountain 1 to where the P pitch tc jouse stood which he had built him and saw with grief now falling I 1 nu yuin ins here was found a w of ovens in which coal i as fo td y freed from sulphur and anade 4 a e fi use in the iron works but at athani time they wished alo al o to oil and pitch aid apil indeed did didiot lot want to lose e the lamp black so lat bat all faddo loge together er on qa account A ah c many aqda da iq view goethe the khe chemij of e or the philosopher wroth his com mentar 1 less a century and a half k ago what hat wad wo b be his comment today could he hc itar one of the great NA american merican p plants I 1 a n t s i where almost unlimited limited numbers 09 0 VE iRro products ducts are ob ua ined from the it du 61 m kil Ul lation or para ow it C combustion abu of t oal I 1 siana certainly iradj one of the pioneer ers but it ap ars ar that the chi ue e used coke as article of com i V ax ace more 40 45 years ago without dreaming of the immense value of the waste product coal tar in the middle ARCS ages it w was as manufactured for use in the arts and for domestic purposes th earliest of coking ebal in a regu re gulLi oven was in when a patent was granted in i n tiam fiand fjand to sir wl wil 1 st john for J making some in a bee hive type of later eater patents were granted in en england land scotland and gernian germany and finally gally in 1817 we wc find isaac frason acason making coke in the gri ground in fayette county pennsylvania that was the crude beginning bof of one anc of americas key industries for w these bee hive ovens waster as a hey they were grew the arca o 0 o 0 plants that astonished toe tha arld the war by theofr of poison gases high P explosive fertilizers and other vital in time oi of peace these them plants produce dyes and great oa of intermediates for the of other commodities in tunes times of 0 war they arc are easily casily converted into strongholds of defense you will remember that it was an english boy who discovered the possibility of manufacturing dyes from coal tar but england let the great char chaufty vip slip through her fingers and as k a wl he found herself hersell in a bad WAY war broke out in 1914 U wax I 1 abing for the U statta att to be caught napping at aud ta be compelled to beg germany aall 11 us dyes to color out our s sump cur currency lency but england aund herself in a far more serious ciuffo she bad had oo 00 dyes for her uniform or flaak and no drugs for her bet wounded she could not sell to the forner german markets because she could not color her textiles she could not send sufficient high explosives 3 or passes to the front she lacked lacke eisses the essential coal tar o 0 9 but england will not be caught asleep again she has placeman edan an embargo on foreign dyes a wor working kanir with all her strength A WV celop her own chemical ind try 1 i i ir alty by of 1 I aborka bus lava N ew yo york t k bit ow ima |