Author: George Walter Morgan BoycottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caissons
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Compressed Air Work and Diving
Author: George Walter Morgan BoycottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caissons
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Physiology and Medicine of Diving and Compressed Air Work
Author: Peter B. BennettPublisher: Bailliere Tindall Limited
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric pressure
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Bends
Author: John L. PhillipsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071252
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, human divers could enter previously inaccessible deep water environments and engineers could design underwater mines and monumental bridges that had never been possible before. But a painful, sometimes fatal illness--decompression sickness, or the bends--mysteriously afflicted many of those who used compressed air. This book is a wide-ranging history of the wonders compressed air brought about and the suffering its unknown hazards inflicted. John L. Phillips explores the intertwining roles of science, technology, engineering, medicine, and politics in the invention of compressed air, the recognition and identification of decompression sickness, and the hundred-year-long process of learning to understand and treat the bends. The book begins with an overview of the biology and chemistry of respiration and a discussion of the steam engine that could generate compressed air. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, and notes, Phillips tells the story of early uses of compressed air, first observations of decompression sickness, growing awareness of the bends during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and efforts to understand the pathophysiology of the illness. He then considers employee health and safety issues, the science of diving today, and human limits to exploring the ocean deeps. In the history of compressed air and its illnesses, Phillips finds important lessons for dealing with other diseases yet to be confronted in the modern world.
Compressed Air Work and Diving
Author: George Walter Morgan BoycottPublisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781297585869
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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Compressed Air Work and Diving
Author: George Walter Morgan BoycottPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294926863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work
Author: F.M. JardinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135826099
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
This book is the record of the conference held in Oxford in 1992 organised by CIRIA, and co-sponsored by the Health and Safety Executive, The British Tunnelling Society and the Medical Research Council's Hyperbaric Sciences Panel. The book consolidates international medical and engineering knowledge and experience on the use of compressed air and hyperbaric techniques, and looks to how they can be safely used in the future.
A Bibliographical Sourcebook of Compressed Air, Diving, and Submarine Medicine
Author: Ebbe Curtis HoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calsson
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Bibliographic Sourcebook of Compressed Air, Diving and Submarine Medicine
Author: Medicine and Surgery BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A Bibliographical Sourcebook of Compressed Air, Diving, and Submarine Medicine
Author: Ebbe Curtis HoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calsson
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Author: Sir Leonard Hill