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Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / / Paul Lucier



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Autore: Lucier Paul <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / / Paul Lucier Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4214-0285-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808332703321
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Serie: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.