Title Exploding steamboats, Senate debates, and technical reports : the convergence of technology, politics, and rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 / by R. John Brockmann

Published Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., 2002

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) : illustrations Series Technical communications series Technical communications series. Contents 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 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 English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Steamboats -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History Steamboats -- Safety regulations -- United States -- History Steamboats -- Law and legislation Steamboats -- Safety regulations United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0895035073 9780895035073

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