By the 1920s, asbestos in the United States was everywhere. To elaborate, let’s use the Johns-Manville Book titled Service to Industry from either 1924 or 1925 — the exact time of publication is a little confusing. For a mostly product catalogue, it shows just how ubiquitous asbestos was in the day to day life back…
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The Blog this week is short as I am knee deep into organizing the draft for my Masters Thesis entitled “Asbestos Related Issues Impacting Bangladeshi Shipbreaking Laborers.” As I did with my first Masters Thesis on the involvement of an asbestos substitute in the January 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy, https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=10618, I will be…
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If you have never heard of the Motley 1000 documents, then you have not spent time as the Manville document repository in Denver, Colorado feeling lost and confused. These are the documents as organized by Ron Motley and his teams of lawyer associates called the Asbestos Litigation Group in 1978 with the goal of upending…
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As I did for the Global Asbestos Awareness Week in 2022, this will be one of my shortest blogs, ever. Still, it is very important. April 1 through 7, 2023 has been designated as Global Asbestos Awareness Week, including a lot of activities for those people with an interest in asbestos related diseases. The ADAO…
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I posted a summary of my asbestos blogs a couple of months ago (January 12, 2023) after I reached the 100 blog level. Given the number of new readers and the breadth of my posts (now up to about 110), I would like to post that list again. If any of the below interests you,…
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Asbestos has been used on a variety of components on ships since at least the late 1800s. This blog isn’t about Navy ships as I already blogged on that topic at https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=9987. Rather, this blog is to provide a history primarily concerning civilian sailing vessels such as a cruise ship or an oil tanker and…
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As you upgrade old electrical systems or inspect them for destruction, do you ever wonder whether the original material contained asbestos? One of my favorite resources are the older catalogs which are very thick, heavy, and data intensive. These do not replace testing, of course, but they are a good starting point for knowledge. Many…
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I suspect that the title might have a few of you scratching your head. That’s okay as we should all learn at least one new thing every day. This proposition of asbestos combining the three kingdoms was discussed by Oliver Bowles in his 1946 book entitled Asbestos: The Silk of the Mineral Kingdom which he…
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I am taking this week off to be with family. I looked through my 70 plus blogs over the last year and one-half, and decided to re-post the one which I believe is the most thought provoking: my Challenger tragedy research. You can find it at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Space-Shuttle-Challenger-Thesis-1282022.pdf. This is my first of three such research…
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By the end of World War II, the US Navy had grown from a fleet of roughly 700 commissioned ships to more than 6,000, each one bearing a unique name and constructed as part of a class of ships. This blog will focus on the Liberty Class of ships that were so essential to the war…
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