Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Earthquake Investigations in California, 1934-1935
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Earthquake Investigations in the Western United States, 1931-1964
Author: Dean S. CarderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
California Earthquakes
Author: Carl-Henry GeschwindPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who—in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public—developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes—their causes and how we can try to prepare for them. Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
United States Earthquakes, 1936-1940
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Earthquake Investigations in the Western United States, 1931-1964
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3264
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3260
Book Description
Publication - Coast and Geodetic Survey
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
List of Publications of the Department of Commerce Available for Distribution
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Concrete Engineering Handbook
Author: William S. La LondePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concrete construction
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description