American Ambulances

Author : Cristina Berna,Eric Thomsen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783757885144

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American Ambulances by Cristina Berna,Eric Thomsen Pdf

Like firemen paramedics are some of the most celebrated everyday heroes we have! The history of ambulances goes way back but the Spanish used them to carry wounded already in 1487 during the Siege of Málaga, part of the Reconquista. The U.S. Army started using ambulances in 1865 and soon after major cities like Cincinnati and New York City began using harse drawn civilian ambulances. Today, rescue vehicles are technologically highly developed with specialized equipment and specially trained paramedics to keep people alive until they can get care at a hospital. We honor all fire fighters and rescue workers on this 4th of July 2023 and hope you will enjoy our selection of photos.

Author : Didier Andres
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612008660

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U.S. Army Ambulances & Medical Vehicles in World War II by Didier Andres Pdf

A “cool compendium” of photos and information about the vehicles that helped save American troops’ lives (Cybermodeler). Of all the armies involved in World War II, the U.S. Army developed the most sophisticated system for the transport and treatment of injured and sick soldiers, pushing the boundaries of available technology to give their men the best chance of not only survival but a full recovery. Each infantry regiment had a medical detachment tasked with conserving the strength of the regiment by not only providing medical and dental treatment but also undertaking all possible measures to keep the regiment healthy. In combat they would provide emergency medical treatment on the battlefield, then move casualties to aid stations they had established. At aid stations, casualties would be triaged, stabilized, and treated before being moved on for further treatment. Vehicles formed a crucial part of the Medical Detachment’s equipment. This fully illustrated, comprehensive book covers all types of medical vehicles used both in-theater and in the United States, including ambulances and technical support vehicles. It details vehicle markings modifications, for use in the evacuation of troops from the battlefield, and the other uses these vehicles were adapted for during the war—including their use as “Clubmobiles” and “Chuck Wagons” by the American Red Cross.

Author : Walter Mp Mccall
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 158388081X

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American Ambulance by Walter Mp Mccall Pdf

Walt McCall follows up his successful Classic American Ambulances 1900-1979 Photo Archive with a new and expanded title that fills in a heretofore missing chapter in American emergency vehicle history. This book chronicles in words and photos the evolution of the emergency ambulance in America over the past 100 years. From the slow jouncing horse-drawn vehicles in use at the turn of the last century to the fleet electronics-laden advanced life support units on the streets and highways of today - you'll find it all here. A fascinating story that is long overdue. The book is divided into chapters illustrating ambulances by decade. Each chapter begins with 2-4 pages of text describing major innovations and improvements introduced during the decade.

Author : Thomas A. McPherson
Publisher : Crestline
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015004303148

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American Funeral Cars & Ambulances Since 1900 by Thomas A. McPherson Pdf

Author : Guido Bonsaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198849469

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America in Italian Culture by Guido Bonsaver Pdf

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and artefacts to travel internationally. Furthermore, improved literacy and social reforms had produced an Italian working class with increased time, money, and education. At the turn of the century, if Italy's ruling elite continued the tradition of viewing Paris as a model of sophistication and good taste, millions of lowly-educated Italians began to dream of America, and many bought a transatlantic ticket to migrate there. By the 1920s, Italians were encountering America through Hollywood films and, thanks to illustrated magazines, they were mesmerised by the sight of Manhattan's futuristic skyline and by news of American lifestyle. The USA offered a model of modernity which flouted national borders and spoke to all. It could be snubbed, adored, or transformed for one's personal use, but it could not be ignored. Perversely, Italy was by then in the hands of a totalitarian dictatorship, Mussolini's Fascism. What were the effects of the nationalistic policies and campaigns aimed at protecting Italians from this supposedly pernicious foreign influence? What did Mussolini think of America? Why were jazz, American literature, and comics so popular, even as the USA became Italy's political enemy? America in Italian Culture provides a scholarly and captivating narrative of this epochal shift in Italian culture.

Author : United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127316367

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The Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army in the World War by United States. Surgeon-General's Office Pdf

Author : Patrick Gregory,Elizabeth Nurser
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780750969109

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An American on the Western Front by Patrick Gregory,Elizabeth Nurser Pdf

This is the remarkable story of the American First World War serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber. When his country entered the Great War in 1917, Kimber left Stanford University to carry the first official American flag to the Western Front. Fired by idealism for the French cause, the young student initially acted as a volunteer ambulance driver, before training as a pilot and taking part in dogfights against ‘the Boche’. His letters home give a vivid picture of what Kimber witnessed on his journey from Palo Alto, California to the front in France: keen-eyed descriptions of New York as it prepared for the forthcoming conflict, the privations of wartime Britain and France, and encounters with former president Theodore Roosevelt and Hollywood actress Lillian Gish. Kimber details his exhilaration, his everyday concerns and his horror as he adapts to an active wartime role. Arthur Clifford Kimber was one of the first Americans on the front line after the entry of the US into the war and, tragically, also one of the last to be buried there – killed in action just a few weeks before the end of the war. Here, his frank letters to his mother and brothers, compiled, edited and put in context by Patrick Gregory and Elizabeth Nurser, are published for the first time.

Author : Nancy L. Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226137520

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The Other Americans in Paris by Nancy L. Green Pdf

A “thorough and perceptive” portrait of the not-so-famous expatriates of the City of Light (The Wall Street Journal). History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers’ representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Historian Nancy L. Green introduces us for the first time to a long-forgotten part of the American overseas population—predecessors to today’s expats—while exploring the politics of citizenship and the business relationships, love lives, and wealth (or in some cases, poverty) of Americans who staked their claim to the City of Light. The Other Americans in Paris shows that elite migration is a part of migration, and that debates over Americanization have deep roots in the twentieth century.

Author : Merle Curti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351532488

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American Philanthropy Abroad by Merle Curti Pdf

This book tells for the first time, in rich detail, and without apologetics, what Americans have done, in the voluntary sector and often without official sanction, for human welfare in all parts of the world. Beneath the currently fashionable rhetoric of anti-colonialism is the story of people who have aided victims of natural disasters such as famines and earthquakes, and what they contributed to such agencies of cultural and social life as libraries, schools, and colleges. The work of an assortment of individuals, from missionaries to foundation executives, has advanced public health, international education, and technical assistance to the Third World. These people have also assisted in relief and relocation of refugees, displaced persons, and those who suffered religious and racial persecution. These activities were especially noteworthy following the two world wars of the twentieth century. The United States established great foundations—Carnegie, Rosenwald, Phelps-Stokes, Rockefeller, Ford, among others—which provided another face of capitalist accumulation to those in backward economic regions and those suffering political persecution. These were meshed with religious relief agencies of all denominations that also contributed to make possible what Arnold Toynbee called “a century in which civilized man made the benefits of progress available to all mankind.” This is a massive work requiring more than five years of research, drawing upon a wide array of hitherto unavailable materials and source documents.

Author : Louisa Adjoa Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291278170

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1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset by Louisa Adjoa Parker Pdf

Author : Michael L. Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313016066

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The Automobile in American History and Culture by Michael L. Berger Pdf

This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015738656

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History of the American Field Service in France: The ambulance sections [ten-seventy-two] Field service haunts and friends by Anonim Pdf

Author : John S. Haller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780809387878

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Battlefield Medicine by John S. Haller Pdf

In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I. The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries figure prominently in this history of the military ambulance, which focuses mainly on British and American technological advancements. Beginning with changes introduced by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges faced by opposing armies in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Philippines Insurrection, then climaxes with the trench warfare that defined World War I. The operative word is "challenges" of medical care and evacuation because while some things learned in a conflict are carried into the next, too often, the spasms of war force its participants to repeat the errors of the past before acquiring much needed insight. More than a history of medical evacuation systems and vehicles, this exhaustively researched and richly illustrated volume tells a fascinating story, giving readers a unique perspective of the changing nature of warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015080252318

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Bulletin [of The] Recruiting Publicity Bureau, U.S. Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : John T. Bethell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674377338

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Harvard Observed by John T. Bethell Pdf

Depicting the evolution of 20th-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, this text shows how changes in the structure and aspirations of American society led the University to remake itself after World War II, and to do so again after the social upheavals of the Vietnam era.