Stephen Mosley The Chimney of the World: A History of vapor Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester.

Stephen Mosley The Chimney of the World: A History of vapor Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. Cambridge: The White Horse Pres 2001 Pp x 271 np ISBN 1-874267-49-9

Manchester, the world's first real industrial city, is particularly well placed for an historical reflection of smoke pollution. By the early 1880 following a hundred years of rapid urban and industrial germination the name Manchester had become synonymous with a brutish leaden-colored sky, tainted by means of coal dust and smoke, and richly deserving of it's sobriquet "chimney of the world." Stephen Mosley's

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