Tag: asbestoshistory

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Manville on Asbestos: What did it know and when did it know it? An Easy way to Find Out.

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

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.

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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