Scientists and swindlers [electronic resource] : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
2008
Q127.U6 L83 2008eb
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Scientists and swindlers [electronic resource] : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.
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9780801890031
0801890039
9781421402857 (electronic book)
0801890039
9781421402857 (electronic book)
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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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English
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1 online resource (443 pages) : map.
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Q127.U6 L83 2008eb
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509.73/09034
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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Table of 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.
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.