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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports
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The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports
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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports book
The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
ByR. John Brockmann
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2002
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 148
eBook ISBN 9781315224633
Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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Brockmann, R.J. (2002). Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315224633
ABSTRACT
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.
