This blog continues my discussion on historical resources available to search asbestos exposures; this time, with a focus on a United Kingdom authored and published book from 1919. The book is entitled Asbestos and the Asbestos Industry: The World’s Most Wonderful Mineral and Other Fireproof Materials authored by A. Leonard Summers as part of the…
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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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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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My Blog today is meant for just some light reading. As the purpose of my Blogs is to bring asbestos history to life, I thought that I would reach back to when Marvel Comics was much younger and the word Asbestos meant something different that it does today. Asbestos and its associated diseases are nothing…
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