Refrigeration Nation

preview-18
  • Refrigeration Nation Book Detail

  • Author : Jonathan Rees
  • Release Date : 2013-12-15
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 249
  • ISBN 13 : 1421411075
  • File Size : 91,91 MB

Refrigeration Nation by Jonathan Rees PDF Summary

Book Description: How we keep food cold while the house stays warm. Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold—from cutting river and lake ice and shipping it to consumers for use in their iceboxes to the development of electrically powered equipment that ushered in a new age of convenience and health. As much a history of successful business practices as a history of technology, this book illustrates how refrigeration has changed the everyday lives of Americans and why it remains so important today. Beginning with the natural ice industry in 1806, Rees considers a variety of factors that drove the industry, including the point and product of consumption, issues of transportation, and technological advances. Rees also shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Refrigeration Nation books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Refrigeration Nation

Refrigeration Nation

File Size : 31,31 MB
Total View : 1309 Views
DOWNLOAD

How we keep food cold while the house stays warm. Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and free

Refrigeration in America

Refrigeration in America

File Size : 10,10 MB
Total View : 6009 Views
DOWNLOAD

A comprehensive study of refrigeration from its beginnings in America up to 1950, which shows its relation to our national development, records the main trends

Chilled

Chilled

File Size : 23,23 MB
Total View : 6938 Views
DOWNLOAD

The refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science – life-saver, food-p

Refrigeration

Refrigeration

File Size : 33,33 MB
Total View : 4326 Views
DOWNLOAD

For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporat

Air-conditioning America

Air-conditioning America

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 7658 Views
DOWNLOAD

Cooper demonstrates how the lure of the open air, from rooftop schoolrooms to open-air theaters to the front porch, challenged air conditioning. Americans were