Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Inglenook, Vol. 5: July 7, 1903
The order of the insurance commissioners that all wires in New York's new subway shall be insulated with asbestos and that the roofs and floors of all sub way cars shall be protected with asbestos mill board, calls attention to the valuable qualities of a mineral that we hardly knew existed a quarter of a century ago. It looks as if asbestos would be a great boon to man kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
