Raymond G Stokes: 3 books
Building on Air
The International Industrial Gases Industry, 1886–2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The industrial gases industry originated in 1886, when a London-based company began producing high-purity oxygen. Initially, purified oxygen was a solution in search of a problem, but demand for it soared early in the twentieth century with the emergence of welding technology. By then, dramatic technological...
The Business of Waste
Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained...
The Thalidomide Catastrophe
How it happened, who was responsible and why the search for justice continues after more than six decades.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
“This momentous book is the first comprehensive history of thalidomide…
It demonstrates how many thousands of victims could have been spared very late in the day if Chemie Grunenthal had taken any notice of the early alarms: … [It] carries conviction by its scientific rigour, and the clarity...