| Have you ever heard of liquid air? The
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| | exchanger outlet. It was a simple and
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| process of liquifying air was a major
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| | inexpensive matter to extract the oxygen
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| scientific achievement that took place
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| | from this liquefied air. If liquifying
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| over 100 years ago. Even after 100 years
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| | air sounds like a mystical process now,
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| there are only a few companies that
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| | in an age full of advanced technology,
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| liquify air, which is probably why you've
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| | just imagine what people thought of
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| never heard of it before. Liquifying air
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| | Georges Claude when he told the world he
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| is a cheap way to isolate different
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| | was going to form a company that
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| gasses like oxygen and nitrogen.The task
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| | liquified air!The company he formed is
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| of liquefying air began in 1892, when
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| | called Air Liquide, and it is now the
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| Frenchman Georges Claude began working
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| | world leader in industrial and medical
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| with acetylene. At the time, acetylene
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| | gases and similar services. Air Liquide's
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| was thought to be a very promising
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| | core business is to supply oxygen,
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| substance as it was used in lighting
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| | nitrogen, hydrogen, and other gasses and
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| fixtures, but it was very difficult to
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| | services to all kinds of industries.
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| produce and transport. Georges Claude
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| | Steel, oil refining, chemicals, glass,
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| worked out a method for liquefying air in
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| | electronics, healthcare, food processing,
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| order to remove its different components
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| | metallurgy, paper, and aerospace are all
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| and isolate the oxygen. Oxygen had
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| | industries that employ Air Liquide
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| nothing to do with acetylene at the time,
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| | products and services. With a global
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| except Claude felt that using oxygen
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| | presence of 130 subsidiaries in over 70
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| could help reduce costs of producing the
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| | countries. What began as a small private
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| fires necessary to separate
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| | experiment to build the components of old
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| acetylene.When Georges Claude heard that
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| | light bulbs has grown into a major modern
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| a scientist named Carl von Linde had
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| | company.Air Liquide is a private carrier,
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| managed to liquefy air, Claude set out to
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| | which means it maintains its own fleet
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| do it himself but vowed to do it faster
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| | and hires truck drivers. Because Air
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| and more efficiently. During the day he
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| | Liquide is such a diverse, international
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| worked as an engineer at Thomson-Houston
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| | company, driving jobs with Air Liquide
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| and he spent his nights conducting tests
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| | are stable, well supported positions.
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| in an old warehouse. For two years he
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| | Solo Air Liquide drivers can expect to be
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| worked with a second-hand expansion
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| | home 80-90% of the time and make between
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| engine, conducting experiments by trial
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| | $50,000 and $70,000 a year depending on
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| and error to solve all his technical
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| | the type of run and work performance. Air
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| problems. When he needed to lubricate
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| | Liquide provides benefits like medical
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| refrigerated moving parts he replaced oil
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| | and life insurance, performance benefits,
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| with petroleum ether so it would remain
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| | ample vacation time, flexible spending
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| liquid down to 140 degrees. To seal
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| | accounts, and quarterly profit sharing.
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| moving parts he used dry leather packing
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| | As Air Liquide grows and succeeds, so do
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| between the piston and the cylinder
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| | each of its employees! If you are
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| liner.And finally, after all these small
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| | interested in a truck driving job, you
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| tricks were put in place, he succeeded!
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| | should apply here to drive for Air
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| He created a system using cold air from
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| | Liquide, or to find out more about Air
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| the expansion cylinder to liquefy
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| | Liquide.
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| pre-cooled pressurized air at the
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