Rust

A thrilling drama of man versus nature detailing the fierce, ongoing fight against the mightiest and unlikeliest enemy rust It has been called the great destroyer and the evil The Pentagon refers to it as the pervasive menace It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty Rust costs America than 400 billion per year than all other natural disasters combined.In Rust, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and often reclusive people concerned with corrosion He sneaks into an abandoned steelworks with a brave artist and nearly gets kicked out of Can School Across the Arctic, he follows a massive high tech robot, hunting for rust in the Alaska pipeline On a Florida film set he meets the Defense Department s rust ambassador, who reveals that the navy s number one foe isn t a foreign country but oxidation itself At Home Depot s mothership in Atlanta, he hunts unsuccessfully for rust products with the store s rust products buyer and then tracks down some snake oil salesmen whose potions are not for sale at The Rust Store Along the way, Waldman encounters flying pigs, Trekkies, decapitations, exploding Coke cans, rust boogers, and nerdy superheroes.The result is a fresh and often funny account of an overlooked engineering endeavor that is as compelling as it is grand, illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes the modern world Rust affects everything from the design of our currency to the composition of our tap water, and it will determine the legacy we leave on this planet This exploration of corrosion, and the incredible lengths we go to fight it, is narrative nonfiction at its very best a fascinating and important subject, delivered with energy and wit. Best Download [ Rust ] author [ Jonathan Waldman ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Jonathan Waldman makes corrosion education into muchof an adventure than I ever thought it could be.From the restoration of the Statue of Liberty to rust inspired art and Can School, Waldman explores all sides of the issues of preservation and corruption.His narrative style is very engaging and amusing The pioneers of stainless steel development and government rust educators, not the most charismatic people, come alive in the text in all of their flawed, quirky, yet strangely inventive gr Jonathan Waldman makes corrosion education into muchof an adventure than I ever thought it could be.From the restoration of the Statue of Liberty to rust inspired art and Can School, Waldman explores all sides of the issues of preservation and corruption.His narrative style is very engaging and amusing The pioneers of stainless steel development an...Rust can be gorgeousPhotos from noted rust photographer Alyssha Csuk And rust can be deadly No matter how you look at this, rust is going to affect you, whether you like it or not It is the persistent and pernicious peril that threatens nearly every aspect of modern society bridges, pipes, cars, missiles, giant beacons of freedom Basically if you draw a Venn diagram of things people like and things rust hates you end up with a single circle.Waldman takes the reader through the fascinating a Rust can be gorgeousPhotos from noted rust photographer Alyssha Csuk And rust can be deadly No matter how you look at this, rust is going to affect you, whether you like it or not It is the persistent and pernicious peril that threatens nearly every aspect of modern society bridges, pipes, cars, missiles, giant beacons of freedom Basically if you draw a Venn diagram of things people like and things rust hates you end up with a single circle.Waldman takes the reader through the fascinating and under appreciated world of rust From its near destruction of the Statue of Liberty, to the development of stainless steel to the Trans Alaska Pipeline the world of rust encompasses so many aspects of our lives I found the section on cans very interesting The science of not only creating the perfect can aluminum now, and extremely thin that not only preserves the product, but also doesn t affect the taste Considering some of the stuff that gets shipped in c...This book explores a problem that has cursed civilization since the end of the stone age, corrosion All common metals are vulnerable to corrosion unless protected in some way from oxygen atoms and other want to be anions That s the reason one doesn t find pure iron in nature except in some meteors It is always necessary to extract it from a rock ore Rust, the common product of the corrosion of iron, is apparently a catchier title than the word corrosion thus the C word wasn t used for th This book explores a problem that has cursed civilization since the end of the stone age, corrosion All common metals are vulnerable to corrosion unless protected in some way from oxygen atoms and other want to be anions That s the reason one doesn t find pure iron in nature except in some meteors It is always necessary to extract it from a rock ore Rust, the common product of the corrosion of iron, is apparently a catchier title than the word corrosion thus the C word wasn t used for the title of this book Though the subject of this book is technical in nature actually most of the book tells the stories of various per...Rust interesting Answer Yes Who would ever think rust, of all things, could be worth looking at Well, it is Regarded in detail, it has a long and complicated relationship with mankind and, like plenty of other things, we tend to never pay it any attention Except for spraying the swing set with Rustoleum once in a while Or not Elevated from rust to corrosion and considering the exact chemical process involved there are several, depending on the materials in the structure , this Rust interesting Answer Yes Who would ever think rust, of all things, could be worth looking at Well, it is Regarded in detai...Only entropy comes easy Anton ChekhovWith that quote, so begins Rust The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman, a thoroughly researched, but unfortunately not so captivating work of nonfiction.I love nonfiction, from heart rendering memoirs like Lying A Metaphorical Memoir, Because I Remember Terror Father I Remember You, and Unbearable Lightness A Story of Loss and Gain, to those intended to amuse, such as Hyperbole and a Half Unfortunate Situations Flawed Coping Mechanisms Mayhem and Other ThinOnly entropy comes easy Anton ChekhovWith that quote, so begins Rust The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman, a thoroughly researched, but unfortunately not so captivating work of nonfiction.I love nonfiction, from heart rendering memoirs like Lying A Metaphorical Memoir, Because I Remember Terror Father I Remember You, and Unbearable Lightness A Story of Loss and Gain, to those intended to amuse, such as Hyperbole and a Half Unfortunate Situations Flawed Coping Mechanisms Mayhem and Other Things That Happened There s also educational non fiction, which can be pretty hit or miss for me With this one, I was hoping for a hit, largely because of a glowing endorsement from Mary RoachWhat a remarkable, fascinating book this is The clarity and quiet wit of Waldman s prose, h...I seen this book randomly in Barnes and Noble, picked it up just to read the synopsis, and I ended up reading the whole book I stood in the aisle, reading this book This is not a book I would ever normally read and I don t really have an opinion on it but I did read the whole thing in one sitt...From the jacket Rust costs Americathan 400 billion per yearthan all other natural disasters combined My dad told me about the Everett Dirksen quote Actually, dad said, Dirksen said he was misquoted, but didn t say anything at the time because he liked it so much I m pretty sure that 400 billion counts as real money.Rust The Longest War is exactly what it purports to be a book about rust The jacket goes on to say, In a thrilling drama of man versus nature While From the jacket Rust costs Americathan 400 billion per yearthan all other natural disasters combined My dad told me about the Everett Dirksen quote Actually, dad said, Dirksen said he was misquoted, but didn t say anything at the time because he liked it so much I m pretty sure that 400 billion counts as real money.Rust The Longest War is exactly what it purports to be a book about rust The jacket goes on to say, In a thrilling drama of man versus nature While I won t fact check the 400 billion claim, we may want to look into the thrilling claim.I understand that I m the one who picked the book up And it was interesting much of it Parts of it dragged But thrilling My favorite chapters were the ones on The Statue of Liberty, and canning.I ve been on the inside, and up to the crown It s interesting in there I hate to think that the condensation from my breath was con...This is not a book about rust It s a human interest story about the people who combat it, control it, and one who even revels in it Waldman s discussion of the science of the phenomenon is marginal and superficial, but the book does a half decent job of putting a perspective on how the problem of rust has a larger impact on public life than generally considered There are multiple digressions which are irritating, but the author s point about taking greater notice of rust is eventually, if ine This is not a book about rust It s a human interest story about the people who combat it, control it, and one who even revels in it Waldman s discussion of the science of the phenomenon is marginal and superficial, but the book does a half decent job of putting a perspective on how the problem of rust has a larger impact on public life than generally considered There are multiple digressions which are irritating, but the author s point about taking greater notice of rust is eve...At first, I was unsure of how interesting a book about rust would be I was very pleasantly surprised to be quite interested in reading about corrosion after all I enjoyed several of the sections in this book, to include the information about the Statue of Liberty and the aluminum cans Having spent three years stationed in Alaska i...Everyone I excitedly told about this book was extremely skeptical until I began to give examples, at which point they d open their eyes wide and say, That sounds really interesting Far, farinteresting than you d probably expect, I promise.

• English
• 16 February 2018
Jonathan Waldman
• Hardcover
• 304 pages
• 1451691599
• Jonathan Waldman
• Rust