I love a good stroll through the archives. Today, please join me on this trip as Electrical Engineers might have been making over 100 years ago. Asbestos intersected with engineering designs long before the health related hazards became obvious. To see examples of their use of asbestos, I have chosen the 1917 Standard Handbook for…
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The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) held its 18th Annual Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference on September 9, 2023 in Washington D.C. and live streamed globally. I attended by listening and watching the conference from my home in Colorado Springs. The convention was packed with panels discussing medicine, prevention, and all things asbestos, and attendees…
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I see from Raymond’s recent posts that Mavis is going through a tough time of it. As such, now would be a good time for me to repeat my August 5, 2021 blog entitled “Mavis Nye: A Force to be Reckoned with” originally posted at https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=8406. Mavis is one of a kind and has done…
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The British government, and particularly its Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, analyzed the German Asbestos Industry right after World War II and concluded that “The technical development of the German asbestos industry has been retarded during the war by the shortage of raw materials.” In summary, it made a difference. Rather than me read the pages to…
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This is big news to those of us who research Johns-Manville history. The JM Claims Research Facility in Denver, Colorado will no longer allow scheduled appointments for in-person research. Starting July 1, 2023, all contacts are by phone or email which means, of course, that getting your eyeballs on the correct documents will be a…
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If my discussion last week at https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=11018 on asbestos containing products available one-hundred years ago wasn’t enough, I have attached at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/JM-Power-Users-1920-Material.pdf a 167 page publication by Johns-Manville from 1920 which discusses in exquisite detail all of its building materials. The Table of Contents is as follows: Also, for those of you who wonder whether…
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The 1920s saw a significant expansion in the use of asbestos containing products. For you to understand this history, I have attached the following three one-hundred year old articles from Raw Materials Magazine: (1) March 1920 article titled “Asbestos Manufactured Products and Uses,” (2) July 1922 article titled “Asbestos, An Ideal Insulating Material,” and (3)…
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As my readership continues to grow, I like to periodically provide a searchable summary of my prior blog topics, just in case a reader would like to search for a specific topic. My prior posts of this list have drawn a lot of readers. As such, my prior asbestos blog posts are as follows: Blog…
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Global surveys seem to always include forgotten information. As an example, did anyone reading this blog know or remember that Crocidolite Asbestos was mined in Bolivia? I did not, and yet Circular 7880 titled Asbestos-A Minerals Survey by Oliver Bowles for the United States Bureau of Mines in 1959 states as follows: This publication is…
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I decided to look into ChatGPT at https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt to see what it has to say about asbestos. Just some simple questions. Question 1. In how many products has asbestos fibers been used since recorded history? Asbestos has been used in a wide variety of products throughout recorded history due to its heat-resistant properties and durability.…
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