Scientists & swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890

著者

• Lucier, Paul

書誌事項

Scientists & swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890

Paul Lucier

（John Hopkins studies in the history of technology）

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

• : hbk

タイトル別名

Scientists and swindlers : consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 innovative work fueled the rapid growth of the American coal and oil industries and the rise of American geology and chemistry. Along the way, he explores the decisive battles over expertise and authority, the high-stakes court cases over patenting research, the intriguing and often humorous exploits of swindlers, and the profound ethical challenges of doing science for money. Starting with the small surveying businesses of the 1830s and reaching to the origins of applied science in the 1880s, Lucier recounts the complex and curious relations that evolved as geologists, chemists, capitalists, and politicians worked to establish scientific research as a legitimate, regularly compensated, and respected enterprise. This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Money for Science Part I: Coal 1. Geological Enterprise 2. The Strange Case of the Albert Mineral 3. The American Sciences of Coal 4. Mining Science Part II: Kerosene 5. The Technological Science of Kerosene 6. The Kerosene Cases Part III: Petroleum 7. The Rock Oil Report 8. The Elusive Nature of Oil and Its Markets 9. The Search for Oil and Oil-Finding Experts 10. California Crude Epilogue: Americanization of Science Notes Essay on Sources Index

「Nielsen BookData」 より

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA88548777
• ISBN:
  • 9780801890031
• LCCN: 2008006551
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Baltimore, Md.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 426 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : Q127.U6
  • DC22 : 509.73/09034
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Science and industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Petroleum industry and trade -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Coal trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Coal trade -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Science and law -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA01224801