Author: Charles Doolittle WalcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dinosaurs
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1894-95: Mineral resources of the United States, 1894 non-metallic products
Author: Charles Doolittle WalcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dinosaurs
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings and Report
Author: Royal Society of TasmaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Vols.for 1878,1879,1881,1884 contain "List of fellows and members."
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Author: The Annual American Catalogue
Author: Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwainPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
The American Geologist
Author: The American Geologist
Author: Newton Horace WinchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Includes section "Review of recent geological literature."
The annual American catalog
Author: The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society
Author: Oregon Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Oregon Historical Quarterly
Author: Oregon Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description