TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,J.A. ED - Geological Survey (U.S.) TI - Preliminary report on the operations of the fuel-testing plant of the United States Geological survey at St. Louis, Mo., 1905. T2 - U.S. Geological survey. Bulletin AV - TP328 .A5 1906b PY - 1906/// CY - Washington PB - Govt. Print. Off. KW - Coal KW - Testing N1 - Subject series: A, Economic geology, 79; E, Chemistry and physics, 48; Issued also as House doc. no. 838, 59th Cong., 1st sess; "Literature relating to peat and its utilization" : p. 11-15; "Partial bibliography of briquetting" : p. 48-52; Contents.- Introduction, by J. A. Holmes.- Field work, by E. W. Parker and J. Shober Burrows.- Work of the chemical laboratory, by N. W. Lord.- Washing tests, by John D. Wick.- Steaming tests, by L. P. Breckenridge.-Producer-gas tests, by Robert H. Fernald.- Coking tests, by A. W. Belden.-Briquetting tests, by J. A. Holmes.- Detailed report of tests; Includes index ER -