02675cam a2200325 4500 522312669 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781629739236 1629739235 B087KJ2YX5 Amazon af0a2594-7cef-4c3b-a8af-d1f94f24174b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5151921 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Borrowman, Jerry,. Catastrophes and Heroes [Libby] : True Stories of Man-Made Disasters. Shadow Mountain Publishing, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5353kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:A century of the industrial age saw unprecedented leaps in technology and engineering, from the first flight of an airplane to the first flight of humans to the moon. But alongside these awe-inspiring achievements were horrible disasters caused by faulty engineering or careless judgement. <i>Catastrophes and Heroes</i> explores eight such disasters and recognizes the unheralded heroes who stepped up to save others in times of great danger.<br /> Included in this collection are the stories of female phone operators who, despite being in the path of destruction after the Los Angeles St. Francis Dam collapsed in 1928, stayed on the job to warn others to evacuate, Ernest Hemingway, who assisted survivors in his own boat after a hurricane destroyed the Florida East Coast Railway in 1935, and Ernest Betts who, though knowing little first aid, saved thirty people after the streamliner train The City of San Francisco crashed in the Nevada mountains in 1939.<br /> Filled with little-known stories and historical insights, this book explores the rich history of the marvels of engineering and technological advances in the span of a century and reveals how the perils, though disastrous, gave rise to heroism and compassion at a time when machines were supposed to do it all. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=af0a2594-7cef-4c3b-a8af-d1f94f24174b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=af0a2594-7cef-4c3b-a8af-d1f94f24174b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=af0a2594-7cef-4c3b-a8af-d1f94f24174b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)