Ebook: Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports : The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill Of 1838
Author: R. John Brockmann
- Tags: Steamboats -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History., Steamboats -- Safety regulations -- United States -- History.
- Series: Baywood's Technical Communications Ser.
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
- City: Amityville, United States
- Language: English
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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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