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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports : The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
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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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- ISBN-13: 9780415404112
- ISBN-10: 0415404118
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: January 2019
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.34 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.48 pounds
- Page Count: 158
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