Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports

The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838

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Paperback, 158 blz. | Engels
Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 2019
ISBN13: 9780415404112
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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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ISBN13:9780415404112
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:158
Druk:1

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