The Deadly Donora Smog of 1948 Spurred ... - Smithsonian Magazine
2018年10月26日 — Steel and zinc industries provided Donora residents with work, but also robbed them of their health, and for some, their lives
1948 Donora smog - Wikipedia
Hydrogen fluoride and sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. Steel 's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant were frequent occurrences in Donora. What made the 1948 event more severe was a temperature inversion, a situation in which warmer air aloft traps pollution in a layer of colder air near the surface.
The Historically Hazy Story of Donora’s Deadly Smog
2017年11月29日 — Local historian David Lonich’s father, a crane operator in the zinc works, lost his sense of smell when a chain hit him across the face.
The Calamity of Donora, Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Historic …
2018年8月8日 — The Donora Zinc Works had always been the epicenter of a one-mile-wide dead zone in which plants could not grow. It had opened in 1915 and three years later its parent company, the American Steel & Wire Company, paid off the first legal judgement against it for harming the population’s health.
A Darkness in Donora | Smithsonian
She was a nurse at the American Steel & Wire Company, whose blast furnaces and zinc works stretched along the Monongahela and employed most of the town, and one of the 70- and 80-year-olds who...
Decades ago, the Donora smog disaster exposed the perils of …
2020年10月27日 — When it was built in 1915, the Donora Zinc Works was the largest zinc plant in the world—45 acres, with furnaces like these helping refine raw zinc into the pure product used to galvanize...
Donora Smog Disaster | PHMC > Our Documentary Heritage
2019年10月30日 — According to the agency's report and complaints by residents, such contamination of the atmosphere was caused by the zinc smelting plant, steel mills' open hearth furnaces, a sulphuric acid plant, with slag dumps, coal burning steam locomotives, and river boats also contributing to the problem.
The Donora Smog Revisited: 70 Years After the Event That …
The first major contributing factor was the pollution emitted by American Steel and Wire plant and the Donora Zinc Works, which covered miles of riverfront land.
Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum - Steel Mill and Zinc Works
The American Steel and Wire Company operated the world's largest Zinc Plant and on October 29, 1915, the Donora Zinc Works produced its first zinc. The plant occupied 4,000 feet of land...
Donora Death Fog: The Crisis that Led to Modern Air Pollution Laws
2011年10月27日 — In the early morning hours of October 26, 1948, a fog settled over the town of Donora, Pennsylvania, the home of U.S. Steel Corporation's Donora Zinc Works and American Steel and Wire. As the day wore on, the fog became progressively thicker and witnesses even claimed that it was so thick and potent they could taste it.