Num Pages: 147 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; KNGS; LAZ; LNKT; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2019. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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