Chrysotile – Page 6 – The Asbestos Blog

Page 2: Asbestos History and Uses as the Roaring 20s Heated Up: Focusing on Johns-Manville in Blog Number 2.

June 30, 2023

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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Asbestos History and uses as the Roaring 20s Heated Up.

June 23, 2023

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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Asbestos Post: Listing of Prior 122 Blog Topics

June 8, 2023

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 Information on Asbestos as of 1959: A Materials Survey by the United States Government.

June 3, 2023

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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ChatGPT and Asbestos: Let’s give it a Try.

May 5, 2023

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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Are You Renovating a House Built in 1877? Might that Last Layer of Paint that you are scraping off the Bare Wood have Asbestos? You Bet.

April 28, 2023

This blog is a little short as I am still focusing on my research thesis entitled “Asbestos-Related Issues Impacting Bangladesh Shipbreaking Laborers.” I should complete that project within a couple of weeks. For this blog, let’s talk paint. I happen to have a H.W. Johns’ manual from March 1, 1877 (yes, over 150 years ago)…
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The Breadth of Asbestos Products by the 1920s: Or, why you need to worry today when taking down old schools, houses, factories, theaters, offices, etc.

April 20, 2023

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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Short Blog For this Week. The 1930s: When Asbestos Companies Knew that they had a Health Problem.

April 16, 2023

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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Interested in What Facts Brought Down Johns-Manville: The 330 Page Index to the Motley 1000 Documents Begins the Discussion.

April 7, 2023

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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Global Asbestos Awareness Week: Asbestos: One Word. One Week. One World – April 1 – 7, 2023

April 1, 2023

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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