Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 /
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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| Serier: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.