Refrigeration Nation

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Refrigeration Nation

Refrigeration Nation written by Jonathan Rees and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-15 with History categories.

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.

Ice And Refrigeration

Ice And Refrigeration written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Cold storage categories.

Refrigerator

Refrigerator written by Jonathan Rees and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand years-but have you ever thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box humming in the background displays more than you might expect, even who you are and the society in which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror-and what it reflects is chilling indeed. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Nation S Business

Nation S Business written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.

Ice

Ice written by Amy Brady and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with History categories.

The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation—from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today—and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day. Most refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines. Ice on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always this way—and to overlook what aspects of society might just melt away as the planet warms. In Ice, journalist and historian Amy Brady shares the strange and storied two-hundred-year-old history of ice in America: from the introduction of mixed drinks “on the rocks,” to the nation’s first-ever indoor ice rink, to how delicacies like ice creams and iced tea revolutionized our palates, to the ubiquitous ice machine in every motel across the US. But Ice doesn’t end in the past. Brady also explores the surprising present-day uses of ice in sports, medicine, and sustainable energy—including cutting-edge cryotherapy breast-cancer treatments and new refrigerator technologies that may prove to be more energy efficient—underscoring how precious this commodity is, especially in an age of climate change.

Industrial Refrigeration

Industrial Refrigeration written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Cold storage categories.

Nation Business Directory

Nation Business Directory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business enterprises categories.

Nation S Health

Nation S Health written by John Augustus Lapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Medicine categories.

National Petroleum News

National Petroleum News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Petroleum categories.

Hotel Bulletin And Nation S Chefs

Hotel Bulletin And Nation S Chefs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with categories.