This is an exceptional original flow diagram of Coal Gas Plant, Utica Gas and Electric Co., Utica, NY.; Designed and Built by the Koppers Company.
Measures approximately 10" x 46" - would look wonderful framed and in a room.
These early industrial diagrams are very hard to come by.
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On February 5, 1898, a group of New Yorkers purchased the local
gas and electric company for $199,000. This was the beginning of the Utica
Gas and Electric Company, which closed the local gas plant and piped in gas
manufactured in Utica. In 1931 a 500,000 cubic feet gas storage tank was built
on Loomis Island which was dismantled this January. In 1951 natural gas replaced
the manufactured gas.
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Koppers is a global chemical and materials company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in an art-deco 1920's skyscraper called the Koppers Tower.
Koppers is an integrated global producer of carbon compounds, chemicals, and treated wood products for the aluminum, railroad, specialty chemical, utility, rubber, steel, residential lumber, and agriculture industries. It serves customers through a comprehensive global manufacturing and distribution network with facilities located in North America, South America, Australasia, China, and Europe.
Koppers operates four principal businesses: Performance Chemicals, Railroad Products and Services, Utility and Industrial Products, and Carbon Materials and Chemicals.
In 1912 immigrant German engineer Heinrich Koppers founded Koppers Company in Chicago, Illinois. In 1915 the organization moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company founder's interest in the company was bought out by Pittsburgh financier Andrew Mellon, who became a large shareholder. The landmark Koppers Building in downtown Pittsburgh opened in 1929.