Refrigeration Nation
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Refrigeration Nation
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Author : Jonathan Rees
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-12-15
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 Business & Economics categories.
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. "A smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food."—American Historical Review "Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about building one root infrastructure of modern food systems."—Business History "Refrigeration Nation is a well-written and useful book for both scholars and students . . . Rees presents a well-developed account of the importance of American enterprise and innovation in the national and global marketplace."—History: Reviews of New Books "A fascinating book."—Heritage Radio Jonathan Rees is a professor of history at Colorado State University–Pueblo. He is the author of Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction and Refrigerator.
Refrigerator
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Author : Jonathan Rees
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-09-24
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.
Before The Refrigerator
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Author : Jonathan Rees
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2018-03-25
Before The Refrigerator 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 2018-03-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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
Supplementary Code Of Fair Competition For The Refrigeration Industry A Division Of The Electrical Manufacturing Industry As Approved On June 9 1934
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Author : United States. National Recovery Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
Supplementary Code Of Fair Competition For The Refrigeration Industry A Division Of The Electrical Manufacturing Industry As Approved On June 9 1934 written by United States. National Recovery Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery categories.
National Training On Good Practices In Refrigeration
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Release Date : 2001-12-31
National Training On Good Practices In Refrigeration written by and has been published by UNEP/Earthprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-31 with Ozone layer depletion categories.
Refrigeration In America
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Author : Oscar Edward Anderson Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-08
Refrigeration In America written by Oscar Edward Anderson Jr. and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with History categories.
A comprehensive study of refrigeration from its beginnings in America up to 1950, which shows its relation to our national development, records the main trends in technological progress, describes the use of refrigeration, and gives some indication of its social effects. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Design And Operation Of Cold Stores In Developing Countries
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Design And Operation Of Cold Stores In Developing Countries written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Ice And Refrigeration
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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 1897 with Cold storage categories.
Innovation And Its Enemies
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Author : Calestous Juma
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-06
Innovation And Its Enemies written by Calestous Juma and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-06 with Political Science categories.
It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the perception that the benefits of new technologies will accrue only to small sections of society, while the risks will be more widely distributed. Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology history, Calestous Juma identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order, and stability as one of today's biggest policy challenges. He reveals the extent to which modern technological controversies grow out of distrust in public and private institutions and shows how new technologies emerge, take root, and create new institutional ecologies that favor their establishment in the marketplace. Innovation and Its Enemies calls upon public leaders to work with scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to manage technological change and expand public engagement on scientific and technological matters.
Refrigeration Terms And Definitions
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Author : American National Standards Institute
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Refrigeration Terms And Definitions written by American National Standards Institute and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery categories.