Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States
Author : Southworth Allen Howland
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Railroad accidents
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Author : Southworth Allen Howland
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Railroad accidents
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Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Alvin F. Oickle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1614234841
On August 9, 1841, the steamship Erie, one of the most elegant and fastest sailing between Buffalo and Chicago, departed carrying 340 passengers. Many were Swiss and German immigrants, planning to start new lives in America's heartland most never made it. The Erie erupted in flames during the night, and despite the heroic efforts of the crew of the Dewitt Clinton, 254 lives were lost. As news of this disaster spread, internationally renowned artists and writers, including Charles Dickens, were inspired to reflect on the lives lost. Historian Alvin F. Oickle's minute-by-minute account weaves together the tragic journey of the passengers, the legend that developed in the aftermath and the fury of a fire on an ocean-like lake.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Steven Biel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0814713459
Ranging widely, essayists here examine the 1900 storm that ravaged Galveston, Texas, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Titanic sinking, the Northridge earthquake, the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, the 1977 Chicago El train crash, and many other devastating events. These catastrophes elicited vastly different responses, and thus raise a number of important questions. How, for example did African Americans, feminists, and labor activists respond to the Titanic disaster? Why did the El train crash take on such symbolic meaning for the citizens of Chicago? In what ways did the San Francisco earthquake reaffirm rather than challenge a predominant faith in progress?
Author : Stephen P. Rice
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520926579
In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners—and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed—and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0807179841
Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a “natural” disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.
Author : R. John Brockmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351844474
By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and many hundreds injured by exploding steam engines on steamboats. After calls for a solution in two State of the Union addresses, a Senate Select Committee met to consider an investigative report from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the first federally funded investigation into a technical.
Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393310634
"If you prefer history served in a dozen fresh ways, get this book." --Chicago Tribune
Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351840878
Contemporary disaster investigation reports into the Shuttle, Three Mile Island, or the World Trade Centre did not happen by chance, but were the result of an evolution of the discourse communities involved with investigating technological accidents. The relationships of private companies, coroners, outside experts, and government investigators all had to be developed and experimented with before a genre of investigation reports could exist. This book is the story of the evolution of these investigation discourse communities in published reports written between 1833 and 1879. Using the reports generated by seven different accidents on railroads and steamboats between 1833 and 1876, it is possible to observe the changes in how these reports interacted and changed over the course of the nineteenth century: The Explosion of the Steamboat New England in the Connecticut River, 1833; The Explosion of the Locomotive Engine Richmond near Reading Pennsylvania, 1844; The Explosion of the Steam Boat Moselle in Cincinatti, 1838; The Camden and Amboy Railroad Collision in Burlington, New Jersey, 1855; The Gasconade Bridge Collapse on the Pacific Railroad in Missouri, 1855; The Eastern Railroad Collision in Revere, Massachusetts, 1871; The Ashtabula Railroad Bridge Collapse in Ohio, 1876