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Title Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 / Paul Lucier.

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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (443 pages) : map.
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Series	Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
	Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Science and industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Petroleum industry and trade -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
	Coal trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Coal trade -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
	Science and law -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Lucier, Paul. Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology 9780801890031
ISBN	9780801890031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0801890039 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9781421402857 (electronic bk.)