Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 (Baywood's Technical Communications) - Softcover

Book 38 of 45: Baywood's Technical Communications

Brockmann, R. John

 
9780415404112: Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 (Baywood's Technical Communications)
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ISBN 10: 0415404118 ISBN 13: 9780415404112
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and many hundreds injured by exploding steam engines on steamboats. After calls for a solution in two State of the Union addresses, a Senate Select Committee met to consider an investigative report from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the first federally funded investigation into a technical.

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R. John Brockman

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415404118
ISBN 13 
9780415404112
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Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
158

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