Rust : the longest war

Summary: An environmental journalist traces the historical war against rust, revealing how rust-related damage costs more than all other natural disasters combined and how it is combated by industrial workers, the government, universities, and everyday people.

Record details

ISBN: 9781451691603
ISBN: 1451691602
Physical Description: print
xiv, 288 pages, [8] pages of plates : map, photographs ; 22 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : the pervasive menace -- A high-maintenance lady -- Spoiled iron -- Knives that won't cut -- Coating the can -- Indiana Jane -- The ambassador -- Where the streets are paved with zinc -- Ten thousand mustachioed men -- Pigging the pipe -- Between snake oil and Rolexes -- The future -- Epilogue.