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.
ISBN: | 9780415404112 |
Publication date: | 21st January 2019 |
Author: | R. John Brockmann |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 158 pages |
Series: | Baywood's Technical Communications |
Genres: |
Communication studies |