Author: Alexander James Wallis-Tayler
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Category : Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Industrial Refrigeration, Cold Storage and Ice-making
Author: Alexander James Wallis-Tayler
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Category : Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Publisher:
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Category : Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Industrial Refrigeration
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Before the Refrigerator
Author: Jonathan Rees
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424606
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A historical study of how increased access to ice—decades before refrigeration—transformed American life. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor. Rees traces the evolution of the natural ice industry from its mechanization in the 1880s through its gradual collapse, which started after World War I. Meatpackers began experimenting with ice refrigeration to ship their products as early as the 1860s. Starting around 1890, large, bulky ice machines the size of small houses appeared on the scene, becoming an important source for the American ice supply. As ice machines shrunk, more people had access to better ice for a wide variety of purposes. By the early twentieth century, Rees writes, ice had become an essential tool for preserving perishable foods of all kinds, transforming what most people ate and drank every day. Reviewing all the inventions that made the ice industry possible and the way they worked together to prevent ice from melting, Rees demonstrates how technological systems can operate without a central controlling force. Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily life in the United States was like between 1880 and 1930. “An in-depth portrayal of a once-indispensable, life-changing technology, the former existence of which is as unknown to most of us as that of the telegraph or canal is to today’s undergraduates. . . . Rees synthesizes considerable archival research and presents interpretations of importance to scholars. . . . Before the Refrigerator is as refreshing as ice water on a hot summer day.” —Journal of American History “This fact-filled book explains how ice became an American necessity by the early twentieth century. Students in business history and history of technology courses will be fascinated to learn how macrobreweries made lager into America’s favorite beer, how cocktails became commonplace, and how burly men used to lug giant blocks of ice into American kitchens.” —Shane Hamilton, author of Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424606
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A historical study of how increased access to ice—decades before refrigeration—transformed American life. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor. Rees traces the evolution of the natural ice industry from its mechanization in the 1880s through its gradual collapse, which started after World War I. Meatpackers began experimenting with ice refrigeration to ship their products as early as the 1860s. Starting around 1890, large, bulky ice machines the size of small houses appeared on the scene, becoming an important source for the American ice supply. As ice machines shrunk, more people had access to better ice for a wide variety of purposes. By the early twentieth century, Rees writes, ice had become an essential tool for preserving perishable foods of all kinds, transforming what most people ate and drank every day. Reviewing all the inventions that made the ice industry possible and the way they worked together to prevent ice from melting, Rees demonstrates how technological systems can operate without a central controlling force. Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily life in the United States was like between 1880 and 1930. “An in-depth portrayal of a once-indispensable, life-changing technology, the former existence of which is as unknown to most of us as that of the telegraph or canal is to today’s undergraduates. . . . Rees synthesizes considerable archival research and presents interpretations of importance to scholars. . . . Before the Refrigerator is as refreshing as ice water on a hot summer day.” —Journal of American History “This fact-filled book explains how ice became an American necessity by the early twentieth century. Students in business history and history of technology courses will be fascinated to learn how macrobreweries made lager into America’s favorite beer, how cocktails became commonplace, and how burly men used to lug giant blocks of ice into American kitchens.” —Shane Hamilton, author of Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy
Industrial Refrigeration
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publisher:
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Ice and Cold Storage
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Refrigeration Engineering
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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English abstracts from Kholodil'naia tekhnika.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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English abstracts from Kholodil'naia tekhnika.
Ice and Refrigeration
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Handbook of Standards for Describing Surplus Property
Author: United States. War Production Board
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Category : Standards, Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Publisher:
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Category : Standards, Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Refrigerating World Incorporating Cold Storage & Ice Trade Journal
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Publisher:
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Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Bibliography on the Marketing of Agricultural Products
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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