Scientists and swindlers
Subtitle: consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890
By: Paul Lucier.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780801890031
Subjects: Gas industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Science and industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Industrial revolution -- United States -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coal; title: Geological enterprise; title: The strange case of the Albert mineral; title: The American sciences of coal; title: Mining science; title: Kerosene; title: The technological science of kerosene; title: The kerosene cases; title: Petroleum; title: The rock oil report; title: The elusive nature of oil and its markets; title: The search for oil and oil-finding experts; title: California crude; title: Americanization of science.