Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 - Technical Communications Series

R. John Brockmann

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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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Book information

ISBN:	9780895032669
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	15 Jun 2002
DEWEY:	343.730965
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	147
Weight:	340g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	13mm