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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports
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.
- Undertitel
- The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
- Författare
- R. John Brockmann
- ISBN
- 9780895032669
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 530 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2002-06-15
- Sidor
- 147
