Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

(Part of the Studies in Industry and Society Series)

by Jonathan Rees

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421419866

ISBN13:9781421419862

Release Date:June 2016

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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