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  • 3000 V DC overhead system was used. This change of operation was for smoke abatement. Electric operation ceased in 1953. The New York Central electrified...
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    that emitted large amounts of black smoke. The provisions of this law were extended in 1926 with the Smoke Abatement Act to include other emissions, such...
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    Smog (redirect from Smoke and fog)
    moniker, presented a paper in 1911 to the Manchester Conference of the Smoke Abatement League of Great Britain about the fogs and resulting deaths. One Birmingham...
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    Industry; Committee of Investigation on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals (1915). Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals...
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  • anthracite coal could be burnt. It was awarded a silver medal at the Smoke Abatement Exhibition in 1881. Parker worked on improvements on the lead-acid...
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    resulted from the smoke was a main factor in legislating to control smoke emissions in London through the Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Act of...
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    Retrieved 9 Jan 2015 – via books.google.com. Goss, William Freeman Myrick, Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals in Chicago. Report of the...
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    Typically the highest priority went to water and air pollution. The Coal Smoke Abatement Society was formed in 1898 making it one of the oldest environmental...
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    Press, 2012) Grinder RD (1978). "From Insurgency to Efficiency: The Smoke Abatement Campaign in Pittsburgh before World War I.". Western Pennsylvania Historical...
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    In 1946 Lawrence decided to enforce the Smoke Control Ordinance of 1941 because he believed smoke abatement was crucial for the city's future economic...
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    acts and rules over the centuries to improve its air—such as the Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Act 1853 and 1856 and the Public Health (London) Act...
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    employers. In August 1853, Palmerston introduced the Smoke Abatement Act in order to combat the increasing smoke from coal fires, a problem greatly aggravated...
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    tons of coal were burned in London, and 15 million across the UK. Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Act 1853 John Snow in 1854 discovered that the water...
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    smoke from steam locomotives was also deemed objectionable; the first electric and diesel locomotives were developed in response to smoke abatement requirements...
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    unenclosed for perpetuity, and that the council do something about smoke abatement". "Information on Savile Park". Visit Calderdale. Retrieved 12 April...
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    the United States Bureau of Mines, which was interested in "smoke abatement" (reducing smoke from coal burning), and the United States Public Health Service...
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    environmental cause was the mitigation of air pollution. The Coal Smoke Abatement Society was formed in 1898 making it one of the oldest environmental...
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    height of the chimney was to satisfy the Smoke Abatement Act 1870 which required a tall chimney to carry smoke out of the valleys in which the factories...
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    ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 1, 2021. Goss, W.F.M. (1915). Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals in Chicago: Report of the...
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  • statistical unit used by the United States Census and other offices. Coal Smoke Abatement Society, a predecessor to Environmental Protection UK. Community Safety...
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