1889: The Cats and Dog That Saved 37 Lives. The moral of the story is that you need to know what a
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A great idea to make the coffee corner a more social place.
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Natural gas is colorless and odorless, so an odorant is added to it for safety reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer#Natural_gas_odorizers
ReplyDeleteI couldn't figure out exactly what gas the cats saved people from, but it was probably a manufactured gas like coal gas or oil gas.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_lighting
According to the linked article, "New York City’s gas history began in 1823, when the New York Gas Light Company became the state’s first manufactured gas company. Manufactured gas was a process that used various forms of wood resin (and later, coal) as opposed to natural gas."
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