Download or read book Exploding Steamboats Senate Debates and Technical Reports written by R. John Brockmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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