The bends: compressed air in the history of science, diving, and engineering

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 identi...

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1. Verfasser: Phillips, John L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 1998
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:IX, 256 S. Ill.
ISBN:0300071256

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