Refrigeration : a history / Carroll Gantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gantz, Carroll, 1931- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery--History.

Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By the mid 1800's, people began developing huge refrigeration machines to manufacture ice. By the early 1900's, engineers developed electric domestic refrigerators, which by 1927 were affordable convenient household appliances. By then, an increasingly sophisticated public demanded more modern-looking appliances than engineers could produce, and a new breed of designers entered the manufacturing world to provide them. During

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Natural Cooling and Ice; 2. Mechanically Manufactured Ice; 3. Electricity and Invention; 4. Early Electric Refrigerators; 5. Gas Refrigeration and Air Conditioners; 6. The Rise of Fashion and the Depression; 7. The Design Decade; 8. Postwar Refrigeration; 9. Regulations and Climate Change; 10 Epilogue: Snow and Ice Redux; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1969-7