| Introduction---The X on the Draft Bill |
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Steamboat Politics and Steamboat Society |
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9 | (12) |
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New York Harbor, May 15, 1824, 7:00 PM |
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11 | (1) |
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Four Days Later---Washington City, May 19, 1824 |
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12 | (9) |
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21 | (22) |
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High-Pressure Steam Engines and Hulls that Ride on the Water |
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21 | (6) |
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What Could Go Wrong with the Boiler Technology |
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27 | (4) |
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Problems Operating a Problem-Prone Technology |
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31 | (2) |
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February 24, 1830, Memphis Tennessee, Early Morning |
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33 | (1) |
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Washington City, May 4, 1830---Two and a Half Months Later |
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34 | (9) |
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Steamboats, The Presidency, and Public Opinion |
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43 | (50) |
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Red River, May 19, 1833, Early on a Spring Sunday Morning |
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43 | (1) |
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December 3, 1833---President Jackson's State of the Union Message to Congress |
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43 | (7) |
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But What About the Public Pressure for Steamboat Safety? |
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50 | (10) |
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The Franklin Institute Reports---A Reasoned Technical Response to Catastrophe |
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60 | (3) |
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Traditional Technical Writing of the Era---Communications Received by the Committee of the Franklin Institute on the Explosion of Steam Boilers (1832) |
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63 | (4) |
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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) |
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67 | (2) |
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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) |
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69 | (3) |
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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) |
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72 | (7) |
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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 |
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79 | (2) |
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Contemporaneous Reactions to Institute's Reports by Those Most Directly Involved: Steamboat Inspectors, Engineers, and Firemen |
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81 | (12) |
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The End of the ``Gold Dust'' |
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91 | (2) |
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Steamboat Politics and Rhetoric |
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93 | (30) |
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May 11, 1837, Thirty Miles South of Natchez |
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94 | (1) |
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A Brief Coincidence of Political Interests |
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95 | (14) |
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96 | (12) |
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The Initial Proposed Bill in December 1837 |
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The Bill Reported Out of Committee |
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109 | (14) |
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123 | (10) |
| Glossary |
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133 | (2) |
| Appendix 1. Comparing the Four Legislative Attempts |
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| Index |
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