Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
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N509.7309/2
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
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...
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
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Maryland
Date Published
c2008.
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"Starting with the small surveying businesses of the 1830s and reaching to the origins of applied science in the 1880s, Lucier recounts the complex and curious relations that evolved as geologists, chemists, capitalists, and politicians worked to establish scientific research as a legitimate, regularly compensated, and respected enterprise. This sw...
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Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N509.7309/2
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74VM4lNWr4ZM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4lNWr4ZM
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0801890039 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801890031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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509.7309034
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991001594449702626
