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Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833-1879

by John Brockman
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780415784795
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 286
  • Original Price: GBP 37.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 424 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Safety & Security / General, Research & Methodology, and 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

Professor R. John Brockmann has been a member of the English Department, Concentration in Business and Technical Writing, University of Delaware, for 20 years. He received the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching technical communication from the Society for Technical Communication in 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication in 1995, and received the Joseph T. Rigo Award, 1986 from the Association of Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Documentation of Computers (ACM SIGDOC), for his significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding of software technical writing.

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