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.
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Schabacher, G. (2019). Staged Wrecks: The Railroad Crash Between Infrastructural Lesson and Amusement (pp. 185–206). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20725-0_9
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