Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — Edison’s Plan for Removing Snow. [ARTICLE]

Edison’s Plan for Removing Snow.

Edison’s latest suggestion is that snow can be removed from city streets not by melting machines, but by portable steam power compressors, which will scoop up the snow in steel scoop buckets and squeeze it into cakes 12x12x12 inches in volume, which will be practically solid Ice. Carts and men following the compressor can take up the cakes with tongs as they drop to the street, says Edison, and a market’ can be found for enough snow cubes to pay the interest on the cost of the machinery.