Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Romance of the Gas Industry
Whether this brain and hand labor is represented by the lighthouse that saves a ship from wreck, the dock to which it swings in, the tunnel through the mountains that the train comes through, the warehouse, the Iorry, the elevated, or the kitchen stove it has performed its part in the mak ing of something that you use today with a bored compla cency which ignores the great forces working endlessly and tirelessly for your comfort and happiness.
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