Patent - ''Improvements in and Relating to Retorts for the Destructive Distillation of Shale''
code: LVSAV2009.022
Description
patent number 13,665, dated 1897 on front and 2nd March 1898 inside. William Young, Priorsford, Peebles, Chemical Engineer and John Fyfe, 1 Montgomerie Drive, Glasgow, Shale Oil Manufacturer "Improvements in and Relating to Retorts for the Destructive Distillation of Shale".
5 pages of text and 2 sheets with technical drawings. Embossed stamp on front right hand corner "Patent Office, Glasgow, W.R.M. Thomson & Co., 96 Buchanan Street. Printed for HMSO
donor was former employee of BP Oil (Grangemouth) Refinery Ltd.