Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / / Paul Lucier
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| Autore: |
Lucier Paul <1962->
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| Titolo: |
Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / / Paul Lucier
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (443 pages) : map |
| Disciplina: | 509.73/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science and industry - Moral and ethical aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
| Petroleum industry and trade - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Petroleum industry and trade - Canada - History - 19th century | |
| Coal trade - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Coal trade - Canada - History - 19th century | |
| Science and law - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Coal -- Geological enterprise -- The strange case of the Albert mineral -- The American sciences of coal -- Mining science -- Kerosene -- The technological science of kerosene -- The kerosene cases -- Petroleum -- The rock oil report -- The elusive nature of oil and its markets -- The search for oil and oil-finding experts -- California crude -- Americanization of science. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Scientists and swindlers |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0285-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788502903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.