Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-15
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Geor4Sf &c JM.lnn SEarrott, sslNr rmeEIy
8 Gra M Ssrs M q %hers tns
he spseliiia ifssls esnistry Gisder Dr.,
g. A. Abbott is diagnosing smoke or
atmospheric conditions over Salt
Lake City Hby observations made from
airplane. according to press notices
reaching Grand Forks. O.. ,>s, -,
Working under Osborn Monnett,
consaltigg. fuel enginssE for the Unit init
rott is working out Salt Lakes smoke
problem in his Gurtiss biplane by
both entering the smoke cloud itself
and taking sarnples, aud by passing
above and below thera. The method
of observation which Mr.. Parrot is
first timeSanSsalt Lake City. F1e car
ries Intricate apparatus. ~
Mr.. Perrott, who took the rnaior,
part OF his chemistry under DR.. Ab:-;5;
b0tt, head'fb the university chemi4-Y
try department, was a keen student
and very devoted to and interested IN
his work, graduating from the uni
He Is thegson of the late Professor
Georke ST. John Perrott, ..of Grand
Forks. head: :;of the. University Latin
depaFtment for many years.
The Salt Lake Herald comments on
Mr.. Perrott Aas follows: IL, 3 .,
4 Feffdtt's Army Work.
L G. ,St. j. Perrott, who is u product
Of the University Of North Dakota,
/ enteredA the government service in
l July, 1917, as a. civilian in the en-
1 ploy Of the United States bureau OF
mines Ct pittsburgh for the purpose
of deveipping q gas mask for the
weresmadex on the proper kind of abb
sorbcnt tpNput in the gas mask in
order to protect our soldiers overseas
from the Chlorine, mustard and other
deadly Eases which. the Germans used
ExperiMsnts were made i with gas
Sass aH9ua ct Se war bs
ing exposed to the gases in the same
way as the soldier in action.
Perrott was shortly afterwards
transferredfto the government e3per-
simental station at Washington, where
he was placed in charge Of a group
OF twelve research chemists. This
! unit developed means of protecting
soldiers against the: poison gas in a
very effective way, A.fabric was de-
!. veloped For protecting the hands and
body of fhe soldier from the effects
). OF D. lnustard gas.
Il Mustard GAS Deadly. z,s,:
Il In the course Of. developing the
fabric for the mask all men in the
laboratory Under .Perrott made actu-
al tests on themselves as to the eff
cheney Of the fabric in :, protection
against mustard gas. A chemical
method for detecting the presence OF
mustard gas~in the field was also de-
veloped here. This was necessary
: due to the fact that mustard gas can
not be detected ssy- the senses, and
the soldiers were often badly burned
Internally by breathing the gas for
i, ! long periods without knowing they
we're In II. }'.3e:
t.1s- Perrott subsequently was assigned
to the work Of developing a mask for
protection against poisonous smokes
and supervised the large scale pro-
ductton of q protective fabric fot
Keeping dugouts free from smoke
and gas He was to have gone ia
France in the middle sof November
1913, to supervise the construction OF
dugouts there. but the armistice was
signed just before the time for his
dep4rturs.
: Reduane Carbon Black Waste.
; At tho close OF the war Perrott
went! into the service Of the bureau Of
mineb in Pittsburgh to work ON the
pfobtlm Sf reducing the waste In tht
man43actUre Of carbon-black from
natlf4l gas. Carbon black is q. 500
:. formed wAen natural gas burns with
face. & Over forty billion feet of nat
ural eas are used annually in the
manufacture Of this product, and q