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 catastrophe. Although the investigation report was well written by the top scientists of the day, and the authors included an effective bill to correct the technical problems of steam engines and stop the fatalities and injuries, the bill was drawn up with a key segment X-ed out. As a result, the wrong piece of legislation was passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by President Van Buren as the United States’ first piece of interstate commerce legislation. The explosions and deaths aboard steamboats continued for another fourteen years before corrective legislation was passed. Exploding Steamboats! investigates the rhetoric, politics, and technology of antebellum America, offering timeless insights into the nature of writing, reading, and public control of technology.
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New York, General Report, Van Buren, United States, Daniel Webster, South Carolina, Secretary of the Treasury, Felix Grundy, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Naval Affairs Committee, House of Representatives, New Jersey, Report of the Committee, State of the Union, Gold Dust, Committee of Twenty-one, Mark Twain, National Archives, New Hampshire, Inspector Clark, Niles Register, Oliver Evans, University Press of New England, Walter Johnson, Alexander Dallas Bache New!
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- General Report by International Labour Organisation. Metal Trades Committee on 9 pages
- South Carolina (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on 4 pages
- Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Dover Maritime) by Louis C. Hunter on page 38, page 87, and page 131
- Presidency of Martin Van Buren (American Presidency (Univ of Kansas Hardcover)) by Major L. Wilson on page 16, and page 117
- Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain on page 38, and page 39
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