Air Conditioning America
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Air Conditioning America
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Author : Gail Cooper
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1998
Air Conditioning America written by Gail Cooper and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
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 slow to give up the social rituals of hot-weather living - the cold drink, the cool clothes, the summer vacation - for the comforts of either the window air conditioner or the central system.
Cool Comfort
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Author : Marsha Ackermann
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2013-08-06
Cool Comfort written by Marsha Ackermann and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-06 with History categories.
The year 2002 marked the 100th anniversary of the first installation of air-conditioning. During the past century, it has become a staple of American life; 83% of US homes are now air-conditioned. In this engaging social history, Marsha Ackermann explores how the idea of “cooling” became firmly embedded in the social perceptions and expectations of Americans, transforming our definition of comfort and the way we live, work, and play.
Cool
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Author : Salvatore Basile
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Cool written by Salvatore Basile and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
“[A] history of air conditioning, chronicling the numerous gimmicks, failed attempts, con jobs, and eventual successes . . . a surprisingly interesting journey.” —San Francisco Book Review The air conditioner is often hailed as one of the modern world’s greatest inventions—yet nearly as often blamed for global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people’s food habits; saved countless lives, and caused countless deaths. First appearing in 1902, when Willis Carrier, an engineer barely out of college, developed the “Apparatus for Treating Air,” everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. But the story of air conditioning and its rise to ubiquity is far from simple. In Cool, Salvatore Basile tracks two fascinating stories: the struggle to perfect an effective cooling device, and the effort to convince people that they actually needed such a thing. With a cast of characters ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Richard Nixon and Felix the Cat, Cool showcases the myriad reactions to air conditioning as it was developed and introduced to the world. Here is a unique perspective on a common convenience: how we came to rely on it today, and how it might change radically tomorrow.
Air Conditioning In Modern American Architecture 1890 1970
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Author : Joseph M. Siry
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Air Conditioning In Modern American Architecture 1890 1970 written by Joseph M. Siry and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Architecture categories.
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.
After Cooling
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Author : Eric Dean Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-07-19
After Cooling written by Eric Dean Wilson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with Nature categories.
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant’s life span from its invention in the 1920s—when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress—to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture—in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values—combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. “Meticulously researched and engagingly written” (Amitav Ghosh), this “knockout debut” (New York Journal of Books) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.
Transactions American Society Of Heating Refrigerating And Air Conditioning Engineers Volume 28
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Author : Refriger American Society of Heating
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Transactions American Society Of Heating Refrigerating And Air Conditioning Engineers Volume 28 written by Refriger American Society of Heating and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This volume contains a collection of papers and reports presented at the annual conference of the American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Topics covered include new developments in HVAC systems, advances in refrigeration technology, and energy efficiency. The papers are authored by leading experts in the field and provide valuable insights into the latest trends and practices. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Losing Our Cool
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Author : Stan Cox
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2010-05-25
Losing Our Cool written by Stan Cox and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Science categories.
Losing our Cool shows how indoor climate control is colliding with an out-of-control outdoor climate. In America, energy consumed by home air-conditioning, and the resulting greenhouse emissions, have doubled in just over a decade, and energy to cool retail stores has risen by two-thirds. Now the entire affluent world is adopting the technology. As the biggest economic crisis in eighty years rolls across the globe, financial concerns threaten to shove ecological crises into the background. Reporting from some of the world’s hot zones—from Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern India—Cox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is designed to help us endure, providing a potent commercial stimulant, making possible an impossible commuter economy, and altering migration patterns (air-conditioning has helped alter the political hue of the United States by enabling a population boom in the red-state Sun Belt). While the book proves that the planet’s atmosphere cannot sustain even our current use of air-conditioning, it also makes a much more positive argument that loosening our attachment to refrigerated air could bring benefits to humans and the planet that go well beyond averting a climate crisis. Though it saves lives in heat waves, air-conditioning may also be altering our bodies’ sensitivity to heat; our rates of infection, allergy, asthma, and obesity; and even our sex drive. Air-conditioning has eroded social bonds and thwarted childhood adventure; it has transformed the ways we eat, sleep, travel, work, buy, relax, vote, and make both love and war. The final chapter surveys the many alternatives to conventional central air-conditioning. By reintroducing some traditional cooling methods, putting newly emerging technologies into practice, and getting beyond industrial definitions of comfort, we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable, too.
Ashrae Standard Methods Of Testing For Seasonal Efficiency Of Unitary Air Conditioners And Heat Pumps
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Author : American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Ashrae Standard Methods Of Testing For Seasonal Efficiency Of Unitary Air Conditioners And Heat Pumps written by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Air conditioning categories.
Terminology Of Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning And Refrigeration
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Author : American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Terminology Of Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning And Refrigeration written by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Air Conditioning Young America
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Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Air Conditioning Young America written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Aeronautics categories.