First Haydite Plant Construction and Operation, Wyoming, the Manufacture of Stephen Hayde's Patented Technology During Oil Production Peak, Photo Album of 91 Photographs, 1922-1924
Salt Creek Haydite Plant album documenting shale extraction, rotary-kiln aggregate production, and water-control construction in Natrona County, Wyoming, 1922-1924, recording the first commercially manufactured lightweight structural concrete aggregate in the United States, patented by Kansas City brickmaker Stephen J. Hayde in 1918 after he discovered that certain shales and clays.....