The handling of dangerous goods-- : notes on the properties of inflammatory, explosive and other dangerous compounds, and the modes of storage and transport there of, with offical classifications parliamentary enactments, particulrs of recorded accidents, etc / by H. Joshua Phillips.

  • Phillips, H. Joshua.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The handling of dangerous goods-- : notes on the properties of inflammatory, explosive and other dangerous compounds, and the modes of storage and transport there of, with offical classifications parliamentary enactments, particulrs of recorded accidents, etc / by H. Joshua Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. It having fallen to the lot of the writer, as a Chemical Expert, to attend several meetings of Railway Goods Managers at the Railway Clearing-House, in London, to assist in the re-classification of explosives and other dangerous goods carried by Railway Companies, it occurred to him that a work of reference, giving in a popular form particulars as to the nature and character of such materials, and information bearing on the questions of their storage and transport, would be found of value by goods managers, railway agents, carriers, and indeed all persons interested in the use, storage, and transport of dangerous goods. It would be needless to comment upon the numerous accidents, many of them fatal in effect, and often result- ing in the destruction of valuable property, which are recorded as occurring through ignorance of the danger- ous nature of materials handled ; and while we cannot all be chemists, it is most desirable that every one responsible for the handling of dangerous goods should b