Title The metal life car : the inventor, the impostor, and the business of lifesaving / George E. Buker.

Publication Info.	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.
Contents	The origin of Francis' metallic lifeboats -- The metallic life car and the U.S. Life-saving Service -- Metallic boats for the U.S. Army -- The Third Seminole War: strategy and tactics -- Metal army pontoon wagon bodies -- Francis' European associates -- Back home -- The Impostor -- Retirement and challenges -- The perfidious Captain Douglass Ottinger, USRMS -- Reactions to Ottinger's charges -- The Forty-ninth Congress and beyond -- Epilogue.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Francis, Joseph, 1801-1893.
	United States. Life-Saving Service.
	Francis, Joseph, 1801-1893. (OCoLC)fst00367456
	United States. Life-Saving Service. (OCoLC)fst00549580
	Lifesaving -- Equipment and supplies.
	Lifeboats -- History.
	Marine engineering -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
	Francis, Joseph.
	Marine engineering -- History -- 19th century. Francis, Joseph -- 1801-1893. Lifesaving -- Equipment and supplies. Life-Saving Service. Inventors -- United States -- Biography. United Sta.
	TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
	Inventors. (OCoLC)fst00978052
	Lifeboats. (OCoLC)fst00998394
	Lifesaving -- Equipment and supplies. (OCoLC)fst00998401
	Marine engineering. (OCoLC)fst01009532
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Buker, George E., 1923- Metal life car. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007034628
ISBN	9780817380373 (electronic)
	081738037X (electronic)

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