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Asbestos and Fire : Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk.
For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel ke...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rutgers University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Tables; Preface; 1 The Asbestos Technology Decision Environment; 2 Asbestos before 1880: From Natural Wonder to Industrial Material; 3 The Rise of the Asbestos Curtain; 4 Mass Destruction by Fire: Asbestos in World War II; 5 Schools, Homes, and Workplaces: Fire Prevention in the Postwar Built Environment; 6 The Asbestos Tort Conflagration; Appendix A: Some Asbestos End-Uses in the United States, 1850-1990; Appendix B: Selected List of Organizations Specifying Asbestos in Codes, Standards or Recommendations, 1880-1980; Notes; Index.