UID:
almahu_9948326938902882
Format:
1 online resource (443 pages) :
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map.
ISBN:
9781421402857 (e-book)
Series Statement:
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lucier, Paul. Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780801890031
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
