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E-raamat: Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838 [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838Suurem pilt
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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.
Introduction---The X on the Draft Bill 1(8)
Chapter 1 Steamboat Politics and Steamboat Society
9(12)
New York Harbor, May 15, 1824, 7:00 PM
11(1)
Four Days Later---Washington City, May 19, 1824
12(9)
Chapter 2 Steamboat Technology
21(22)
High-Pressure Steam Engines and Hulls that Ride on the Water
21(6)
What Could Go Wrong with the Boiler Technology
27(4)
Problems Operating a Problem-Prone Technology
31(2)
February 24, 1830, Memphis Tennessee, Early Morning
33(1)
Washington City, May 4, 1830---Two and a Half Months Later
34(9)
Chapter 3 Steamboats, The Presidency, and Public Opinion
43(50)
Red River, May 19, 1833, Early on a Spring Sunday Morning
43(1)
December 3, 1833---President Jackson's State of the Union Message to Congress
43(7)
But What About the Public Pressure for Steamboat Safety?
50(10)
The Franklin Institute Reports---A Reasoned Technical Response to Catastrophe
60(3)
Traditional Technical Writing of the Era---Communications Received by the Committee of the Franklin Institute on the Explosion of Steam Boilers (1832)
63(4)
Report of the Committee of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers, Part I, Containing the First Report of Experiments Made by the Committee for the Treasury Department of the U. States (1836)
67(2)
General Report on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers by a Committee of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (1837)
69(3)
Report of the Committee of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers Made at the Request of the Treasury Department of the United States, Part II, Containing the Report of the Sub-Committee to Whom Was Referred the Examination of the Strength of Materials Employed in the Construction of Steam Boilers (1837)
72(7)
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 Ward
79(2)
Contemporaneous Reactions to Institute's Reports by Those Most Directly Involved: Steamboat Inspectors, Engineers, and Firemen
81(10)
The Gold Dust Fire
91(2)
Chapter 37 The End of the "Gold Dust"
91(2)
Chapter 4 Steamboat Politics and Rhetoric
93(30)
May 11, 1837, Thirty Miles South of Natchez
94(1)
A Brief Coincidence of Political Interests
95(14)
The Select Committee
96(12)
The Initial Proposed Bill in December 1837
108(1)
The Bill Reported Out of Committee
109(14)
Chapter 5 The Law Didn't Work
123(10)
Glossary 133(2)
Appendix 1 Comparing the Four Legislative Attempts 135(4)
Index 139
R. John Brockman
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