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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction • Money for Science 1 PART 1 COAL Chapter  • Geological Enterprise 11 Chapter  • The Strange Case of the Albert Mineral 41 Chapter  • The American Sciences of Coal 69 Chapter  • Mining Science 108 PART 2 KEROSENE Chapter  • The Technological Science of Kerosene 143 Chapter  • The Kerosene Cases 162 PART 3 PETROLEUM Chapter  • The Rock Oil Report 189 Chapter  • The Elusive Nature of Oil and Its Markets 208 Chapter  • The Search for Oil and Oil-Finding Experts 244 Chapter  • California Crude 273 Epilogue • Americanization of Science 313 Notes 325 Essay on Sources 397 Index 411 This page intentionally left blank ...

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