PBS

Building a Bridge Pier

James B. Eads faced many obstacles when he built the first steel bridge in the world over the Mississippi River, none of which was more daunting than the sinking of the bridges' two piers and ...
The New York Times

BRIDGE WORKMAN DIES OF CAISSON DISEASE.; Man Employed on "Bridge No. 3" Succumbs in the Brooklyn Hospital -- Nature of the Illness.

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Nature

Caisson Disease 1

MEN who have been working in compressed air, either under water in diving dresses or diving bells, in caissons used in preparing foundations for bridges, &c., or in making shafts or tunnels through ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Compressed-Air Illness; or, So-called Caisson Disease

Based on: Compressed-Air Illness; or, So-called Caisson Disease. By E. H. Snell, M.D., B.Sc. (Load.). pp. 251. London: H. K. Lewis. 1896.
Nature

Whales and Caisson Disease

I DOUBT if whales avoid caisson disease—the usual consequence of deep diving—by filling their lungs with sea-water as Dr. J. Argyll Campbell suggests 1. Where whales abound, the temperature of the ...
The New York Times

THE CAISSON DISEASE.

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Scientific American

Caisson Disease

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