Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports
The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
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Beschreibung des Verlags
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.