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

Brockmann, R. John

ISBN 10: 089503266X / ISBN 13: 9780895032669

Published by Routledge, 2002

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Inscribed by the author to PO on the title page. No DJ, as issued. Pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Locked cabinet.

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Bibliographic Details

• 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: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089503266X
• ISBN 13: 9780895032669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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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.

About the Author

R. John Brockman