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Wm (William) C Sprague (Editor) Assisted by The Sprague Correspondence School of Journalism, Detroit, MichiganBiblio.com

University of Michigan Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation CenterBiblio.com

An Evaluation of the 1954 Poliomyelitis Vaccine Trials: Summary Report

1955015150Ann Arbor 1955. Very good copy contained in a cloth clamshell box. Inscribed: "To/THomas M. Rivers/with warm regards/Thomas Francis Jr." Collation: xiv 50 4 42 2 shorter tipped in leaf 45-63 pp. Pagination irregular but complete. Thomas Francis Jr.was the director of the Vaccine Center. He had occupied countless important academic and scientific governmental positions in American medicine prior to his appointment to lead the trials Paul History of poliomyelitis 432. Thomas M. Rivers was the first chairman of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which was instrumental in overseeing the research leading to discovery of an effective vaccine. Interesting speculations have been posed as to what the NFIP would have done without Dr. Rivers to guide its destiny from the start ibid. p. 313. The controversy attending the announcement in 1953 of trials for the new vaccine and subsequent disagreements about the extent of the trails and the safety of the vaccine were initially resolved by the publication of this preliminary report. In the abbreviated report offered here . . . the success of the product developed and tested by Dr. Salk as an effect vaccine for the prevention of poliomyelitis was unequivocally stated. Francis stressed that the report was not a preliminary communication but a summary of objective analyses of valid data from records which were essentially complete Paul p. 432. Unfortunately later in April several vaccinated children developed poliomyelitisdue as it turned out to contamination in the laboratory of one of the manufacturersand the validity of the conclusions in this report were widely questioned. Following identification of the source of the infected cases administration of the Salk vaccine was accelerated and several further reports were published testifying to its effectiveness see Paul pp. 437-40. First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Paperback

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University of MichiganBiblio.com

University of Michigan International Conference on the Structural Design of Asphalt Pavements Proceedings

19625150University of Michigan 1962. Hardback. Good. University of Michigan International Conference on the Structural Design of Asphalt Pavements – Proceedings 1962 University of Michigan – University of Michigan ISBN: none roads don’t need barcodes they need bearing capacity Condition: Good Vendor: Crappy Old BooksWelcome to the glamorous high-octane world of… asphalt pavement design.This hefty volume contains the full proceedings of the 1962 International Conference on the Structural Design of Asphalt Pavements a gathering where the great and the good of civil engineering converged to discuss the deepest most profound question of all:<blockquote>“How thick should this road actually be before it collapses under trucks and bad planning”</blockquote>Inside this formidable relic of mid-century engineering optimism you will find:<ul><li>Papers with thrilling titles involving load repetitions subgrade moduli resilient response fatigue life and layer theory all delivered with the intense sincerity of people who truly believe in the power of a well-compacted base course.</li><li>Graphs – so many graphs – plotting wheel loads deflections and failure criteria like it’s a particularly niche form of modern art.</li><li>Charts and equations carefully designed to make non-engineers back away slowly while pavement nerds nod happily and start reaching for a slide rule.</li><li>Case studies from around the world each essentially saying: “We built this road. We drove heavy things over it. Here’s when it started to crack and here’s what we think about that.”</li><li>The full 1960s experience of typewritten camera-ready copy diagrams done by hand and the absolute absence of PowerPoint in any form.</li></ul>It’s a love letter to asphalt as a serious structural scientific endeavour long before it became just something commuters complained about when it develops a pothole.Our copy is graded Good which in the candid dialect of Crappy Old Books means:<ul><li>The cover/boards are solid with only modest wear around the edges – call it the bibliographic equivalent of surface fretting: entirely cosmetic structurally sound.</li><li>The spine is upright and holding like a well-designed pavement keeping its shape under repeated axle loads. Minor rubbing here and there but nothing approaching rutting.</li><li>The pages are all present firmly bound and pleasantly aged to that warm “archival engineering library” tone. You may spot the occasional underlining check mark or inscrutable margin note – perhaps from a past reader who was genuinely excited about elastic layer theory.</li><li>No catastrophic coffee spills no half-detached signatures: just honest professional handling wear from people who one suspects used the phrase “serviceability index” in casual conversation.</li></ul>Not pristine but then neither are most of the roads it helped to design.Perfect for:<ul><li>Civil engineers and pavement specialists who want to commune with the ancestors and see what the field looked like before finite element software and colour printers.</li><li>Infrastructure history nerds keen to understand how mid-20th-century minds turned empirical wheel tracks into design standards.</li><li>Urbanists and transport geeks who realise that beneath every city story is a quietly suffering road structure.</li><li>Anyone who thinks it’s funny to own a giant serious conference proceedings volume solely devoted to asphalt and then proudly display it on the coffee table.</li></ul>The 1962 University of Michigan International Conference on the Structural Design of Asphalt Pavements proceedings are a monument to the idea that if you measure calculate and argue enough you can build a road that will outlast everything except civil service paperwork.Available now from Crappy Old Books where our subjects are niche our grading is honest and we firmly believe that beneath every great civilisation lies a carefully designed pavement structure with well-documented deflection data. University of Michigan hardcover

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