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Exploding steamboats, Senate debates, and technical reports : the convergence of technology, politics, and rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amityville, N.Y. :
Baywood Pub. Co.,
2002.
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| Colección: | Technical communications series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION�The X on the Draft Bill
- CHAPTER 1. Steamboat Politics and Steamboat Society
- New York Harbor, May 15, 1824, 7.00 PM
- Four Days Later�Washington City. May 19, 1824
- CHAPTER 2. Steamboat Technology
- High-pressure Steam Engines and Hulls that Ride on the Water
- What Could Go Wrong with the Boiler Technology
- Problems Operating a Problem-Prone TechnologyFebruary 24, 1830, Memphis Tennessee. Early Morning
- Washington City, May 4, 1830�Two and a Half Months Later
- CHAPTER 3 . Steamboats, The Presidency, and Public Opinion
- Red River, May 19, 1833, Early on a Spring Sunday Morning
- December 3, 1833�President Jackson�s State of the Union Message to Congress
- But What About the Public Pressure for Steamboat Safety?
- The Franklin Institute Reports�A Reasoned Technical Response to Catastrophe
- Contemporaneous Reactions to the Institute Reports in the Scientific Community: Hales�s Open Letter to Grundy, Locke�s Cincinnati Report, and Steam Textbooks by Renwick and WardContemporaneous Reactions to Institute�s Reports by Those Most Directly Involved: Steamboat Inspectors, Engineers, and Firemen
- The Gold Dust Fire
- Chapter 37, The End of the “Gold Dust�
- CHAPTER 4. Steamboat Politics and Rhetoric
- May 11, 1837, Thirty Miles South of Natchez
- A Brief Coincidence of Political Interests
- The Select Committee