Title Scientists and Swindlers : Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (443 pages) Series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Money for Science; PART 1 COAL; Chapter 1 Geological Enterprise; Chapter 2 The Strange Case of the Albert Mineral; Chapter 3 The American Sciences of Coal; Chapter 4 Mining Science; PART 2 KEROSENE; Chapter 5 The Technological Science of Kerosene; Chapter 6 The Kerosene Cases; PART 3 PETROLEUM; Chapter 7 The Rock Oil Report; Chapter 8 The Elusive Nature of Oil and Its Markets; Chapter 9 The Search for Oil and Oil-Finding Experts; Chapter 10 California Crude; Epilogue: Americanization of Science; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A Bc; d; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w Notes Print version record Subject Science and industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century Petroleum industry and trade -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Coal trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century Coal trade -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Science and law -- United States -- History -- 19th century Coal trade Petroleum industry and trade Science and law Canada United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781421402857 1421402858

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