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Routledge Exploding Steamboats & Senate Debates - Technical Communications

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This scholarly work examines the pivotal intersection of technology, politics, and rhetoric surrounding the Steamboat Bill of 1838, a landmark moment in American industrial policy. By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and hundreds more injured by exploding steam engines aboard steamboats, prompting urgent calls for federal intervention in two consecutive State of the Union addresses. The book analyses how a Senate Select Committee evaluated the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia's groundbreaking federally funded investigation into technical failures, marking a watershed moment when government, scientific institutions, and legislative bodies converged to address catastrophic industrial safety. Published by Routledge, this technical communications study reveals how competing rhetorical strategies shaped policy responses to technological disaster, offering insights into the early relationship between federal oversight, expert investigation, and public safety regulation in nineteenth-century America.

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Examines the Steamboat Bill of 1838 and its role in establishing federal oversight of industrial safety standards.

Analyses the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia's first federally funded investigation into technical failures and steam engine disasters.

Explores how rhetoric and political debate influenced technological policy decisions during the Senate Select Committee proceedings.

Documents the historical context of over two thousand steamboat explosion deaths that prompted legislative action.

Published by Routledge as part of their Technical Communications series for academic and professional audiences.

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Release Date
15 June 2002
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30 December 2006

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