Smokestacks and Progressives
Subtitle: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881--1951
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801860836
Subjects: Atmospheric pollution; Demonstrations & protest movements; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Pollution; Air Pollution; Technology; Science; Science/Mathematics; USA; Engineering - General; Environmental Science; History / United States / General; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Air; History; Smoke prevention; United States
First sentence: When in May of 1902, 145,000 anthracite coal miners began a strike in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the residents of East Coast cities took immediate and uncommon interest.