Refrigeration nation : a history of ice, appliances, and enterprise in America
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Refrigeration nation : a history of ice, appliances, and enterprise in America
- Jaar:
- 2013
- Onderwerp:
- Cold storage industry History
Cold storage industry Social aspects History
Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery Economic aspects History
Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery History
Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery Social aspects History - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University press, 2013
- Plaatsnummer:
- INDUS.44-04-16 hardcover (Industriemuseum)
- ISBN:
- 9781421411064
1421411067 - Paginering:
- X, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
- Reeks:
- Studies in industry and society
- Samenvatting:
- Introduction: The Cold Chain -- Inventing the Cold Chain, 1806-1880 -- The Long Wait for Mechanical Refrigeration, 1850-1910 -- The Decline of the Natural Ice Industry, 1880-1910 -- Refrigerated Transport Near and Far -- The Pleasures and Perils of Cold Storage -- "Who Ever Heard of an American Without an Icebox?" -- The Early Days of Electric Household Refrigeration -- The Completion of the Modern Cold Chain, 1930-Present -- Conclusion: Refrigeration, Capitalism and the Environment.
- Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/cgw01:000740618
