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Category : Metal-work
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Metal Progress
Author: Empire of Rubber
Author: Gregg MitmanPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.
Life-enhancing Plastics
Author: William Anthony Holmes-WalkerPublisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 9781860945427
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book enables readers without specialist knowledge to understandthe ways in which materials can be used to enhance people's lives. Therange is vast from simple contact uses, through artificial limbs, to permanently implanted devices
Chemicals
Author: Science and Technology of Rubber
Author: James E. MarkPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080456014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The Science and Technology of Rubber, Third Edition provides a broad survey of elastomers with special emphasis on materials with a rubber-like elasticity. As in the 2nd edition, the emphasis remains on a unified treatment of the material; exploring topics from the chemical aspects such as elastomer synthesis and curing, through recent theoretical developments and characterization of equilibrium and dynamic properties, to the final applications of rubber, including tire engineering and manufacturing. Many advances have been made in polymer and elastomers research over the past ten years since the 2nd edition was published. Updated material stresses the continuous relationship between the ongoing research in synthesis, physics, structure and mechanics of rubber technology and industrial applications. Special attention is paid to recent advances in rubber-like elasticity theory and new processing techniques for elastomers. This new edition is comprised of 20% new material, including a new chapter on environmental issues and tire recycling.
Recycling and Re-use of Waste Rubber
Author: Martin J. ForrestPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110644231
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Recycling of rubber materials is necessary from both an environmental and economic perspective. This book describes everything from the world market to the many novel technologies and processes developed for the re-use and recycling of our common rubber materials. Devulcanization, production of rubber crumbs, reprocessing and manufacture of new materials are thoroughly described and discussed.
New Scientist
Author: The Plantation Rubber Industry in the Middle East [sic]
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Author: David Milton FigartPublisher:
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Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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In Step with the States
Author: Homer Hildreth HowardPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Wartime Technological Developments
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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