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- 1 online resource.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction. Harnessing the power of steam -- A "fire engine to raise water" -- "Fulton's folly" and the New York monopoly -- The competition emerges -- Gibbons v. Ogden : the demise of the New York monopoly -- High-pressure engines and anthracite -- Steam-propelled navigation on the sound : Vanderbilt launches the Lexington -- Fires and exploding boilers -- Congressional power to regulate steamboat safety -- The Steamboat Act of 1838 -- Vanderbilt sells the Lexington to the Boston and New York Transportation Company -- All aboard the Lexington for Stonington -- The fire alarm sounds -- Rescue efforts prove too little, too late -- The coroner's inquest : the owner's testimony -- The coroner's inquest : the Lexington's safety record -- The coroner's inquest : the survivors' testimony -- The inquest jury's verdict -- The public demands retribution and improved safety -- The Lexington's owner's liability for property lost on board -- The shipowners' limitation of liability act of 1851 -- The call to overhaul the steamboat act of 1838 -- Congress versus the states -- The Steamboat Act Of 1852 -- The Steamboat Act Of 1871 -- Salvaging the Lexington -- Epilogue. Requiescat in pace.
- ISBN
- 9781682478073 (electronic bk.)
- 1682478076 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC
- ebd3852262946
- Author
O'Connor, Brian E., 1952- author.
- Title
Death by fire and ice : the steamboat Lexington calamity / Brian E. O'Connor.
- Publisher
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Online version: O'Connor, Brian E., 1952- Death by fire and ice Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2022] 9781682478073 (DLC) 2022011941
Original 9781682478042 1682478041 (DLC) 2022011940