[Download free ebook] Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
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| #1546592 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2008-11-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x1.40 x7.00l,2.15 | File Name: 0801890039 | 448 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Fascinating Read!|By RDD|In "Scientists & Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890", historian Paul Lucier examines the nebulous position of scientists in nineteenth century, wherein they had to promote and sell their trade in order to perform the research that interested them. Describing the professionalization of science in the nineteenth century, Lucier|||" Scientists and Swindlers is a model of how the history of science and technology ought to be done. Drawing on materials gleaned from the scientific journal and the courtroom, the textbook and the business prospectus, Paul Lucier weaves an exciting a
In this impressively researched and highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and industry in the nineteenth century. Scientists and Swindlers introduces us to a new service of professionals: the consulting scientists. Lucier follows these entrepreneurial men of science on their wide-ranging commercial engagements from the shores of Nova Scotia to the coast of California and shows how their innovativ...
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