Twisted Rails Sunken Ships The Rhetoric Of Nineteenth Century Steamboat And Railroad Accident Investigation Reports 1833-1879 | Mental Health

Contemporary disaster investigation reports into the Shuttle Three Mile Island or the World Trade Centre did not happen by chance but were the result of an evolution of the discourse communities involved with investigating technological accidents. The relationships of private companies coroners outside experts and government investigators all had to be developed and experimented with before a genre of investigation reports could exist. This book is the story of the evolution of these investigation discourse communities in published reports written between 1833 and 1879. Using the reports generated by seven different accidents on railroads and steamboats between 1833 and 1876 it is possible to observe the changes in how these reports interacted and changed over the course of the nineteenth century: The Explosion of the Steamboat New England in the Connecticut River 1833; The Explosion of the Locomotive Engine Richmond near Reading Pennsylvania 1844; The Explosion of the Steam Boat Moselle in Cincinatti 1838; The Camden and Amboy Railroad Collision in Burlington New Jersey 1855; The Gasconade Bridge Collapse on the Pacific Railroad in Missouri 1855; The Eastern Railroad Collision in Revere Massachusetts 1871; The Ashtabula Railroad Bridge Collapse in Ohio 1876 |Twisted Rails Sunken Ships The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports 1833-1879 | Mental Health