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Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships - The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833-1879 (Paperback)
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Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships - The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833-1879 (Paperback)
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Contemporary disaster investigation reports into the Shuttle, Three
Mile Island, or the World Trade Centre did not happen by chance,
but were the result of an evolution of the discourse communities
involved with investigating technological accidents. The
relationships of private companies, coroners, outside experts, and
government investigators all had to be developed and experimented
with before a genre of investigation reports could exist. This book
is the story of the evolution of these investigation discourse
communities in published reports written between 1833 and 1879.
Using the reports generated by seven different accidents on
railroads and steamboats between 1833 and 1876, it is possible to
observe the changes in how these reports interacted and changed
over the course of the nineteenth century: The Explosion of the
Steamboat New England in the Connecticut River, 1833; The Explosion
of the Locomotive Engine Richmond near Reading Pennsylvania, 1844;
The Explosion of the Steam Boat Moselle in Cincinatti, 1838; The
Camden and Amboy Railroad Collision in Burlington, New Jersey,
1855; The Gasconade Bridge Collapse on the Pacific Railroad in
Missouri, 1855; The Eastern Railroad Collision in Revere,
Massachusetts, 1871; The Ashtabula Railroad Bridge Collapse in
Ohio, 1876
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