Title Twisted rails, sunken ships : the rhetoric of nineteenth century steamboat and railroad accident investigation reports, 1833-1879 / R. John Brockmann

Published Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations Series Baywood's technical communications series Baywood's technical communications series Contents pt. 1. Using science as a corporate defense -- pt. 2. Publicity, political pressure, and emotional involvement by authors transform disaster investigations -- pt. 3. The antebellum period of disaster investigation : transformation ends and a constellation of roles and reports becomes normal Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Railroad accidents -- United States Steamboat disasters -- United States Accident investigation -- United States Accident investigation Railroad accidents Steamboat disasters United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780895035042 0895035049

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