asbestoshistory – Page 15 – The Asbestos Blog

Why Ship Breaking is an Export for Developed Countries and an Import for those which are Underdeveloped: Asbestos Makes a Difference.

January 6, 2022

Ship breaking (scrapping) is a classic situation of developed countries (in World Systems terminology, “core states”) sucking up the good parts of technology, production, capital, and profits, while exporting the bad parts to lesser developed areas of the world (“periphery states”) willing to accept what the core countries allow, in exchange for taking risks otherwise…
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How to Research the Difficult; Ship Breaker Exposure to Asbestos

January 2, 2022

I am beginning my book project dealing with asbestos exposures arising from ship building, seafaring, and ship breaking (scrapping) that will be my focus for at least a couple of years. Fingers crossed on the detailed research and pulling it off informatively and with an interested readership. Right now, ship breaking is likely the most…
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1825: Asbestos and Talc Were Well Known in the United States

December 22, 2021

I didn’t know much about 1825, so I looked it up. On February 9, 1825, John Quincy Adams was elected President of the United States without getting the majority of the electoral vote, the popular vote, or any shots being fired. Hand it to Henry Clay for doing the honorable thing. A great deal is…
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Our One Year Anniversary

December 16, 2021

We went live with this website and blog one year ago as I was morphing from an attorney to a student of history. I could not be happier with the transition in regards to what I do on a day to day basis and the new friends and professionals with whom I get to hang…
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The Century has Turned, What Have we Learned? Asbestos in 1901

December 3, 2021

We are now into 1901 for our history review through the Minerals Yearbook. The scientists finally have capitulated to market forces that two distinct minerals will be mined and sold using the name “asbestos:” amphiboles and chrysotile. So, it is no longer “asbestos” versus “chrysotile” but, rather, it is “amphiboles” versus “chrysotile,” both of which…
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The Child’s Guide to Knowledge: 1865

September 30, 2021

Dedicated to my English friends across the pond. The Child’s Guide to Knowledge: Being a Collection of Useful and Familiar Questions and Answers on Every-Day Subjects, Adapted for Young Persons, and Arranged in the Most Simple and Easy Language, By a lady has one heck of a title. My electronic edition was published in London…
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Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: A Historian’s Dream Book. 1980

September 23, 2021

This is it, so long as you are looking for information from 1899 to 1980. The Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects authored by George Peters and Barbara Peters published in 1980 by Garland Publishing can be yours on Amazon for anywhere between $120 and $770 at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sourcebook+on+asbestos+peters+1980&ref=nb_sb_noss or, alternatively, you may…
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Manville on Asbestos: What did it know and when did it know it? An Easy way to Find Out.

September 3, 2021

Welcome to my 38th Blog since we started going down this path during December 2020. I very much appreciate all of your support, and I plan to continue my postings to educate those readers who are interested in the history of asbestos. After all, unless you understand that history, how could you hope to make…
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Asbestos Fundamentals: A 1963 Primer to Understand History

July 1, 2021

Last week, my Blog addressed a 148 page dynamo book originally written in German by Hans Berger and then translated in 1966 to English by Professor Ralph Oesper of the University of Cincinnati on the historical use of asbestos in plastics and rubbers. Today, we move back three years to 1963 and we broaden the…
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Mining the Archives for Asbestos History. The Manville Document Repository.

April 2, 2021

One of the best starting points for a historical based deep dig on asbestos is the document repository based in Aurora, Colorado, also known as the Asbestos Claims Research Facility (ACRF). This repository was formed after the Manville bankruptcy but includes documents related to just about any asbestos topic, issue, or defendant. Just their available…
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