Download or read book Refrigerating World written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chilled written by Tom Jackson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science – life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator, while the science of refrigeration is crucial, not just in transporting food around the globe but in a host of branches on the scientific tree. Refrigerators, refrigeration and its discovery and applications provides the remarkable and eye-opening backdrop to Chilled, the story of how science managed to rewrite the rules of food, and how the technology whirring behind every refrigerator is at play, unseen, in a surprisingly broad sweep of modern life. Part historical narrative, part scientific mystery-lifter, Chilled looks at the ice-pits of Persia (Iranians still call their fridge the 'ice-pit'), reports on a tug of war between 16 horses and the atmosphere, bears witness to ice harvests on the Regents Canal, and shows how bleeding sailors demonstrated to ship's doctors that heat is indestructible, featuring a cast of characters such as the Ice King of Boston, Galileo, Francis Bacon, and the ostracised son of a notorious 18th-century French traitor. As people learned more about what cold actually was, scientists invented machines for making it, with these first used in earnest to chill Australian lager. The principles behind those white boxes in the kitchen remain the same today, but refrigeration is not all about food – for example, a refrigerator is needed to make soap, penicillin or orange squash; without it, IVF would be impossible. Refrigeration technology has also been crucial in some of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last 100 years, from the discovery of superconductors to the search for the Higgs boson. And the fridge will still be pulling the strings behind the scenes as teleporters and intelligent computer brains turn our science-fiction vision of the future into fact.
Download or read book Refrigerating World Incorporating Cold Storage Ice Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refrigerating World written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refrigerating World written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book After Cooling written by Eric Dean Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Refrigerating Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-17 include Proceedings of the 10th-24th (1914-28) annual meeting of the society.
Download or read book Refrigerating World Incorporating Cold Storage Ice Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Refrigeration Throughout the World written by Roger Thévenot and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The evolution, trends, and applications of the mechanical aspects of refrigeration are traced from 1755 to the present day. The information is intended to appeal not only to engineering students and refrigerationists, but to the general reader as well. The history is divided into 4 epochs. The first, before 1875, discusses natural refrigeration, thermometry, the development of the concepts of heat and thermal processes, and the 4 families of refrigerating machines. The second epoch, 1875-1914, covers the industrialization of refrigeration and its first applications to brewing, food preservation, storage and transport, and non-food applications such as air conditioning and cryogenics. The third epoch, between the wars, introduces the compressor, refrigeration in daily life, and further developments in established areas. The final epoch, after 1945, documents the explosion of refrigeration technology, its spread throughout the world, and its thousands of uses, from desalination of sea water tofreeze-dried foodstuffs and medical applications.
Download or read book Cold written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 7, no.7, July 1924, contains papers prepared by Canadian engineers for the first World power conference, July, 1924.
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