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Scientists and Swindlers : Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (443 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421402857
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scientists and SwindlersDDC classification:
  • 509.73/09034
LOC classification:
  • Q127.U6L83 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Money for Science -- PART 1 COAL -- Chapter 1 Geological Enterprise -- Chapter 2 The Strange Case of the Albert Mineral -- Chapter 3 The American Sciences of Coal -- Chapter 4 Mining Science -- PART 2 KEROSENE -- Chapter 5 The Technological Science of Kerosene -- Chapter 6 The Kerosene Cases -- PART 3 PETROLEUM -- Chapter 7 The Rock Oil Report -- Chapter 8 The Elusive Nature of Oil and Its Markets -- Chapter 9 The Search for Oil and Oil-Finding Experts -- Chapter 10 California Crude -- Epilogue: Americanization of Science -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Money for Science -- PART 1 COAL -- Chapter 1 Geological Enterprise -- Chapter 2 The Strange Case of the Albert Mineral -- Chapter 3 The American Sciences of Coal -- Chapter 4 Mining Science -- PART 2 KEROSENE -- Chapter 5 The Technological Science of Kerosene -- Chapter 6 The Kerosene Cases -- PART 3 PETROLEUM -- Chapter 7 The Rock Oil Report -- Chapter 8 The Elusive Nature of Oil and Its Markets -- Chapter 9 The Search for Oil and Oil-Finding Experts -- Chapter 10 California Crude -- Epilogue: Americanization of Science -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry.

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