Refrigeration Nation A History of Ice Appliances and Enterprise in America 1st Edition by Jonathan Rees ISBN 1421411067 978-1421411064
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ISBN 10: 1421411067
ISBN 13: 978-1421411064
Author: Jonathan Rees
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.
Table of contents:
The Cold Chain
CHAPTER 1
Inventing the Cold Chain
CHAPTER 2
The Long Wait for Mechanical Refrigeration
CHAPTER 3
The Decline of the Natural Ice Industry
CHAPTER 4
Refrigerated Transport Near and Far
CHAPTER 5
The Pleasures and Perils of Cold Storage
CHAPTER 6
Who Ever Heard of an American without an Icebox?
CHAPTER 7
The Early Days of Electric Household Refrigeration
CHAPTER 8
The Completion of the Modern Cold Chain
Refrigeration Capitalism and the Environment
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