Episode 93 - Moselle

This week we are headed to the Queen City - Cincinnati, OH - to discuss the steamboat Moselle, whose explosive loss in 1838 spurred the US Congress to create the first federal legislation governing transportation safety.

Sources:

Aldrich, Mark. “Safe and Suitable Boilers: The Railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Locomotive Safety, 1900 - 1945.” Railroad History, no. 171, 1994, pp. 23 - 44. 

Burke, John G. “Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power.” Technology and Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, 1966.

Gelzer, Christian. "Speed is a Virtue: Travel in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States." Technology's Stories: Past and Present, vol. 3, no. 2, 15 June 2015. https://www.technologystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Gelzer_Speed-is-a-Virtue.pdf

Hand, Greg. "From Bucktown to Vanceville: Cincinnati's Lost 19th Century Neighborhoods." Cincinnati Magazine, 20 Nov 2017. https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/bucktown-vanceville-cincinnatis-lost-19th-century-neighborhoods/

Thomas, Christian. "For Profit and Glory: Steamboat Racing on the Inland Rivers." River History, 26 May 2021. https://www.howardsteamboatmuseum.org/river-history/for-profit-glory-steamboat-racing-inland-rivers/

Suess, Jeff. "Our history: Steamboat explosion led to federal regulations." The Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Mar 2018. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/03/14/our-history-steamboat-explosion-led-federal-regulations/403819002/

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