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Asbestos: From Rock to Fabric

by Charles Z. Carroll-Porczynski

Published by The Textile Institute, Manchester

Copyright 1956

Hardcover, 400 pages.

This is a technical book covering the process of making asbestos into fabrics and other products. It includes pictures of machinery and products.  Some of the topics covered are: Mining, Extraction, Blending, Carding, Conversion of Yarn into Fabrics, Asbestos Textiles, Brake Linings, Asbestos-Cement Products, Asbestos in the Plastics Industry, Other Industrial Uses (Gaskets, Pipe Insulation, Felts, Floor Tiles, Ship Building Industry, Fire-fighting equipment), Heat-Resistant Silicate Fibres, German Asbestos Substitutes, and much more.  There is a large list of company and organization names in the acknowledgments.

The complete table of contents and acknowledgments list are pictured above.


Condition:  Good. No dustjacket. Covers have some wear, mostly to edges.  Owner info and a few marks to front endpapers.  Occasional small smudge or mark to text, but pages are mostly in good, clean condition. Light soiling to top book edge.
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