(Download) "Building on Air" by Raymond G. Stokes # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Building on Air
- Author : Raymond G. Stokes
- Release Date : January 31, 2015
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 19465 KB
Description
Imagine a business whose main products derive from raw materials that are not only inexhaustible, but also free. The vast majority of those products, whether used in manufacturing or in provision of services, whether they are deployed by accident or by design, have no adverse environmental consequences whatsoever. And the companies that make and sell the products are profitable, long-lived, and yet operate outside of the limelight. We all know that things that sound too good to be true usually are. But in this case, the industry exists and, indeed, has existed since the late nineteenth century. Generally neglected by scholars and little known among the general public, the industrial gases industry produces and sells a range of products, many of them simply components of the air such as oxygen, nitrogen, neon, argon, and krypton. These and the other products of the industry in turn underlie every manufacturing process in the modern world and also play a role, directly or indirectly, in many service industries. This is the first time that the story of the development of the “invisible industry” from its origins to the present has been told in its full technological, business, industrial, and international dimensions.
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