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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)
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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)
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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