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Scientists & swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890
- Title
- Scientists & swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
- Author
- Lucier, Paul, 1962-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 426 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
- Uniform Title
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
- Alternative Title
- Scientists and swindlers
- Subjects
- Coal trade > United States > History > 19th century
- Coal trade > Canada > History > 19th century
- Science and law > United States > History > 19th century
- Petroleum industry and trade > Canada > History > 19th century
- Science and industry > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History > 19th century
- Petroleum industry and trade > United States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-395) and index.
- 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 and oil-finding experts -- California crude -- Americanization of science.
- Call Number
- IAG 09-4387
- ISBN
- 9780801890031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801890039 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008006551
- OCLC
- 212375714
- Author
- Lucier, Paul, 1962-
- Title
- Scientists & swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Series
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technologyJohns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-395) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IAG 09-4387