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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports - The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,357
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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports - The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the...

Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports - The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 (Paperback)

R. John Brockmann

Series: Baywood's Technical Communications

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Baywood's Technical Communications
Release date: 2019
First published: 2002
Authors: R. John Brockmann
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-40411-2
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Transport law
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Shipping industries > General
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LSN: 0-415-40411-8
Barcode: 9780415404112

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