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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports : The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 - R. John Brockmann

Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports

The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838

By: R. John Brockmann

eText | 4 June 2019 | Edition Number 1

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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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