Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports : The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 Paperback / softback
by R. John Brockmann
Part of the Baywood's Technical Communications series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415404112
Other Formats
- EPUB from £38.69
- PDF from £38.69
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415404112
