An edition of Refrigeration
(2015)
Refrigeration
a history
by Carroll Gantz
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"Humans coped with heat by harvesting ice and devising cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By mid 1800s, they developed machines to manufacture ice. By early 1900s, engineers developed refrigerators, which by 1927 were affordable household appliances. Today refrigeration preserves food for worldwide distribution, makes tropical climates habitable, saves lives with medical applications and enables space flight"--
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Table of Contents
Natural cooling and ice
Mechanically manufactured ice
Electricity and invention
Early electric refrigerators
Gas refrigeration and air conditioners
The rise of fashion and the Depression
The design decade
Postwar refrigeration
Regulations and climate change
Epilogue : snow and ice redux.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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