The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving and Engineering Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving and Engineering Book

Although the invention of compressed air in the 1840s made possible such previously unimaginable engineering feats as the Brooklyn Bridge, it also caused a mysterious, sometimes fatal illness-decompression sickness, or the bends. This book tells the fascinating history of compressed air, its related illnesses, and how science, technology, engineering, medicine, and politics contributed to the hundred-year-long process of learning to understand and treat the bends.Read More

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  • 0300071256
  • 9780300071252
  • J Phillips
  • 23 June 1998
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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