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

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Autor principal: Lucier, Paul, 1962- (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Col·lecció:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.