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Staged Wrecks: The Railroad Crash Between Infrastructural Lesson and Amusement
Gabriele Schabachersubject
AmusementHistoryState (polity)Economylawmedia_common.quotation_subjectSteam locomotiveCrashmedia_commonlaw.inventiondescription
To explore infrastructures and publics from a historical perspective, in this paper I will focus on the entangled development of transport infrastructures in the nineteenth century on the one hand and the rise of amusement cultures on the other. More specifically, I will examine a phenomenon that became popular at US State Fairs at the end of the century, namely staged railroad crashes with two steam locomotives.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 |