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Appendix No. 14. Remarks on Creosoting
My own practical experience in wood preservation has been confined to creosoting. In England, where the metallic salt processes, i.e., Kyanizing, Burnettizing, etc., started in the race with creosoting about the year 1838, creosoting alone survives, and has been generally adopted wherever wood is used in railroad construction or other out of door work. Before engaging in creosoting as a business, I satisfied myself, through European correspondence mainly, that properly creosoted wood is indestructible by marine animal life, and will resist decay almost indefinitely. The members of our Society were at that time generally unfamiliar with the process and inclined to be skeptics. Since then sufficient has been learned from actual experience in this country to confirm the good reputation of this process in Europe.
Appendix No. 14. Remarks on Creosoting
My own practical experience in wood preservation has been confined to creosoting. In England, where the metallic salt processes, i.e., Kyanizing, Burnettizing, etc., started in the race with creosoting about the year 1838, creosoting alone survives, and has been generally adopted wherever wood is used in railroad construction or other out of door work. Before engaging in creosoting as a business, I satisfied myself, through European correspondence mainly, that properly creosoted wood is indestructible by marine animal life, and will resist decay almost indefinitely. The members of our Society were at that time generally unfamiliar with the process and inclined to be skeptics. Since then sufficient has been learned from actual experience in this country to confirm the good reputation of this process in Europe.
Appendix No. 14. Remarks on Creosoting
Andrews, Edward R. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 14 ; 339-345
2021-01-01
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