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Identifier: pacificservicema1019paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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-bromide (t eargas), trichlormethyl-chloroformate, a r s i n eand dichlor - phenylarsine. These gases wereemployed in the usual 314 Pacific Service Magazine routine at Astoria, but as advices wouldcome from headquarters, the efficiency ofthe chemical products against other andnew gases would have to be determined.An interesting commentary on this workis that very often only a few days wouldelapse between the introduction of a newgas at the theatre of operations and thevariation in the American chemical proc-esses to improve or vary the quality of thegas defense chemicals in order that they and pleased the New York headquartersof the Chemical Warfare Service. Suchattainment is an excellent record for thePacific Gas and Electric Company, andcomments most satisfactorily upon thecapacity, efficiency and co-operation ofall departments of the company that wereengaged at some time or other on theGovernment work. Worthy of special mention in this con-nection are Messrs. E. C. and L.- B. Jones
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Personnel of the Chemical Warfare Service detachment located :iPaciflc Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, from Juni I rem Gas Works of theto February, 1919. might effectively meet the new conditions.This rapidity of variation in the processesreciuired a highly skilled technical staffas well as extensive appaiatus and equip-ment. Just prior to the time of the signing ofthe armistice, the San Francisco plant hadbecome the most important source ofcharcoal for American gas defense. Therapidity with which the San Franciscoplant was placed in operating condition,the economy of the process and of theinstallation and the general ease of gettingthings done in San Francisco surprised and Mr. W. S. Yard, who gave unstintinglyof their time and energy in the effort toplace the San Francisco plant on a soundoperating basis. The generosity, counsel and advice ofMr. John A. Britton and Mr. A. F. Hocken-beamer will always command the deepestgratitude of the military authorities whowere associate

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