Conservation Through Engineering by Franklin K. Lane is an informative and contemplative discussion of the use of coal and oil in the early 1900s as the primary means of power, and what could be done to shift America into a less industrialized state. Contents: "The coal strike, National stock-taking, Coal as a National Asset, Public Responsibility, The miners' year, Have we too many mines and miners? The long view, Saving coal, Coal and coal, Expansion abroad, Saving coal by saving electricity, White coal and black, The age of petroleum, Oil shale…"
