Behind The Gas Mask

Author : Thomas I Faith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252096624

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In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles. As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS allied with supporters in the military, government, and private industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of battlefield chemical weapons.

Author : United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Gas masks
ISBN : UIUC:30112087176605

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The Gas Mask by United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service Pdf

Author : Thomas I Faith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0252038681

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Behind the Gas Mask by Thomas I Faith Pdf

In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles. As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS allied with supporters in the military, government, and private industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of battlefield chemical weapons.

Author : Arno Carl Fieldner,Sidney H Katz,Selwyne Perez Kinney
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020161094

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Test Of Gas Masks And Respirators For Protection From Locomotive Smoke In Railroad Tunnels With Analysies Of Tunnel Atmospheres by Arno Carl Fieldner,Sidney H Katz,Selwyne Perez Kinney Pdf

The development of gas masks and respirators has been a key priority for safety engineers since the early 20th century. In this fascinating and informative book, Arno Carl Fieldner, Selwyne Perez Kinney, and Sidney H. Katz cover the science behind gas mask testing, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by locomotive smoke in rail tunnels. A must-read for anyone interested in the science of respiratory protection. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502504

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At Home and under Fire by Susan R. Grayzel Pdf

Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With the advent of air warfare, civilians far removed from traditional battle zones became a direct target of war rather than a group shielded from its impact. This is a study of how British civilians experienced and came to terms with aerial warfare during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British responses to the various real and imagined war threats of the 1920s and 1930s, including the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War and, ultimately, the Blitz itself. The processes by which different constituent bodies of the British nation responded to the arrival of air power reveal the particular role that gender played in defining civilian participation in modern war.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491273

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The Age of the Gas Mask by Susan R. Grayzel Pdf

Uncovers how a material object - the civilian gas mask - can reveal the power and limits of the modern state facing total war.

Author : John Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351735971

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Behind the Mask by John Paterson Pdf

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK’s offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms. But how should they best be understood and what advantages do they offer over the previous regulatory approaches? Informed by autopoiesis theory, this study takes seriously the notion of an empirical field constituted by diverse communicative systems and thus traces the development of the industry along a series of dimensions including those of management and engineering as well as of politics and regulation. Adapting cognitive mapping, the book offers graphic demonstrations of the resultant constructive misunderstandings of regulatory and scientific signals and accordingly an alternative perspective on the nature of risk. The latest regulatory developments are shown to possess the potential to address these issues but only insofar as they are understood as distinct from previous legal forms and in particular as an example of reflexive law.

Author : M. Girard Dorsey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501768385

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Holding Their Breath by M. Girard Dorsey Pdf

Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty. The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare as obsolete or taboo. Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical weapons use in a new way.

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009314831

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The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany by Peter Thompson Pdf

Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the gas mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Survey of the Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309048323

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Veterans at Risk by Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Survey of the Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite Pdf

Recently, World War II veterans have come forward to claim compensation for health effects they say were caused by their participation in chemical warfare experiments. In response, the Veterans Administration asked the Institute of Medicine to study the issue. Based on a literature review and personal testimony from more than 250 affected veterans, this new volume discusses in detail the development and chemistry of mustard agents and Lewisite followed by interesting and informative discussions about these substances and their possible connection to a range of health problems, from cancer to reproductive disorders. The volume also offers an often chilling historical examination of the use of volunteers in chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. militaryâ€"what the then-young soldiers were told prior to the experiments, how they were "encouraged" to remain in the program, and how they were treated afterward. This comprehensive and controversial book will be of importance to policymakers and legislators, military and civilian planners, officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs, military historians, and researchers.

Author : Nicole Hahn Rafter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 025206741X

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Creating Born Criminals by Nicole Hahn Rafter Pdf

But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past. It is an exploration of the role of biological explanation as a form of discourse and of its impact upon society. While The Bell Curve and other recent books have stopped short of making eugenic recommendations, their contentions point toward eugenic conclusions, and people familiar with the history of eugenics can hear in them its echoes. Rafter demonstrates that we need to know how eugenic reasoning worked in the past and that we must recognize the dangers posed by the dominance of a theory that interprets social problems in biological terms and difference as biological inferiority.

Author : M. Brady Brower
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252035647

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Unruly Spirits by M. Brady Brower Pdf

Unruly Spirits connects the study of séances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfully navigating experiments conducted by nineteenth-century French psychical researchers and the wide-ranging debates that surrounded their work, M. Brady Brower situates the institutional development of psychical research at the intersection of popular faith and the emergent discipline of psychology. Brower shows how spiritualist mediums were ignored by French academic scientists for nearly three decades. Only after the ideologues of the Third Republic turned to science to address what they took to be the excess of popular democracy would the marvels of mediumism begin to emerge as legitimate objects of scientific inquiry. Taken up by the most prominent physicists, physiologists, and psychologists of the last decades of the nineteenth century, psychical research would eventually stall in the 1920s as researchers struggled to come to terms with interpersonal phenomena (such as trust and good faith) that could not be measured within the framework of their experimental methods. In characterizing psychical research as something other than a mere echo of popular spirituality or an anomaly among the sciences, Brower argues that the questions surrounding mediums served to sustain the scientific project by forestalling the establishment of a closed and complete system of knowledge. By acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.

Author : David Leaf,Ken Sharp
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446553506

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KISS by David Leaf,Ken Sharp Pdf

After three decades of undying adoration, KISS fans will get their first fully authorized and total access look at the band who loves to "rock 'n' roll all nite and party every day!" Twenty years ago, KISS officially revealed the faces behind the stage makeup, and fans all over the world got their first look at the band. Now, in KISS: BEHIND THE MASK, the band's legion of fans and music enthusiasts alike will get to know the men behind the stage personas. After 30 years as a band, KISS are more than just a rock 'n' roll institution-they are legends. For decades, they have consistently remained among the most successful acts in the history of popular music. KISS' legendary stagemanship and extreme theatrics are well known by two generations of rock fans, and they are already pulling in the next one. Now, through their own words and exclusive material contributed by some of the biggest rock stars in the industry, KISS: BEHIND THE MASK will tell the band's full story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9027708339

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The Book of Ingenious Devices / Kitáb al-Ḥiyal by Anonim Pdf

skilled in geometry, ingenious devices (!lival), music and astronomy. According to Ibn al-Nad!m and Ibn Khallikän their weakest subject was astronamy, but this seems to conflict with the opinions of Ibn Yunus and al-BIrun!, hoth good judges, who spoke highly of the accuracy of the Banu Musa's astronomical observations. Mul)ammad, who was the most influential of the brothers, specialised in gcomctry and astronomy, and excellcd Al)mad in all the sciences except in the construction of ingenious devices. AI-l: Iasan was a brilliant geometrician with aretenlive memoryand great powers of deduction. A rival onee tried to discredit him in front of al-Ma'mun hy saying that al- l: Iasan had read only six of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. AI-l: Iasan replied by saying that it was unnecessary for him to read the remainder because he could arrive at the answers to any of Euclid's problem s by deduction. AI-Ma'mun acknowledged al-l: Iasan 's skill, but did not excuse him, saying: "laziness has prevented you from 2 reading the whole ofit-it is to geometry as the Ictters a, b, t, 111 are to speech and writing. " (H. 264). AI-l: Iasan is rarely mentioned by name elsewhere in the sources and may have preferred to devote his time to scholarship, whereas his brothers were involved in a variety of undertakings. At the time of their entry into the House of Wisdom the Banu Musil were paar and needy (H.

Author : Scott Buchanan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0252061500

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The Doctrine of Signatures by Scott Buchanan Pdf

"The Doctrine of Signatures is one of the first and most significant works in our time to show how closely connected the liberal arts are to clinical medicine. It is the seminal work in the recent history of the philosophy of medicine, a field that is enjoying a renaissance throughout the world today." -- Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.