Download or read book Refrigerator written by Helen Peavitt and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a late-night snack to a cold beer, there’s nothing that whets the appetite quite like the suctioning sound of a refrigerator being opened. In the early 1930s fewer than ten percent of US households had a mechanical refrigerator, but today they are nearly universal, the primary means by which we keep our food and drink fresh. Yet, for as ubiquitous as refrigerators are, most of us take them for granted, letting them blend into the background of our kitchens, basements, garages, and all the other places where they seem so perfectly convenient. In this book, Helen Peavitt amplifies the hum of the refrigerator in technological history, showing us just how it became such an essential appliance. Peavitt takes us to the early closets, cabinets, and boxes into which we first started packing ice and the various things we were trying to keep cool. From there she charts the development of mechanical and chemical technologies that have led to modern-day refrigeration on both industrial and domestic scales, showing how these technologies have created a completely new method of preserving and transporting perishable goods, having a profound impact on society from the nineteenth century and on. She explores the ways the marketing of refrigerators have expressed and influenced our notions of domestic life, and she looks at how refrigeration has altered the agriculture and food industries as well as our own appetites. Strikingly illustrated, this book offers an informative and entertaining history of an object that has radically changed—in a little over one hundred years—one of the most important things we do: eat.
Download or read book Refrigeration Nation written by Jonathan Rees and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Refrigerator written by Jonathan Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Safety Devices on Household Refrigerators written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety Devices on Household Refrigerators written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Special Subcommittee on Health and Science and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refrigerator Safety Devices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do Not Open written by Katheryn Krotzer Laborde and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the floodwaters that swamped New Orleans finally receded in September 2005, the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery began. One of the most common sights was the discarded home refrigerator, perched on the curb and ready for disposal. For months, thousands upon thousands of ruined refrigerators still awaited pick-up. Many had messages scribbled with markers or blurted with spray paint, rendered by owners and passersby alike, ranging from practical to sentimental, the angry to the darkly humorous. This book, featuring hundreds of black-and-white photographs, presents the communiques that transformed appliances into message boards, and explores the post-disaster environment that inspired their creation.
Download or read book Einstein s Refrigerator written by Steve Silverman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strange-but-true stories about such topics as a headless chicken that lived eighteen months, Albert Einstein's designs for refrigerators, and how a Donald Duck cartoon saved a ship.
Download or read book Safety Devices on Household Refrigerators written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You ll All Be Sorry written by Gail Simone and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder Woman's Gail Simone shreds the sacred cows of comics in this first-ever collection of her humorous prose. In this mixture of new stories and classics from her long-running online column, Simone sends up websites, Watchmen, Whiteout, and Wizard, turning her sharp wit on characters, pros, and fans alike. Includes illustrations. Includes over 30 columns, freshly laid out, many with illustrations. Simone is joined by a number of her fellow comics creators, who provide illustrations or offer up their own Condensed Comics Classics. Says Simone: "This is a book that has been long-requested, mainly by myself, but also some random others, mostly demi-people who don't get out much and don't understand what real life is about. It collects some of my classic 'humor' columns, 'satirizing' an 'industry' I knew 'nothing' about, as well as some columns that just plain 'sucked.' I like it and I'm sure you (or others less discerning) will, also! *" * Surety not legally binding. Guarantee of chortles only valid if reader is naked and/or medicated and not in close proximity to Carrot Top. Do not use YABS as a suppository except in extreme emergencies or in high def. YABS is not meant to be a replacement for an iron lung. Any mention of Rob Liefeld is strictly for purposes of hilarity.
Download or read book Before the Refrigerator written by Jonathan Rees and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to harvest ice -- How to manufacture ice -- How ice (and the perishable food it preserved) make it to consumers -- How ice changed the American diet and American life -- How household refrigerators changed the ice market forever
Download or read book Safety Devices on Household Refrigerators Hearings on H R 2181 July 20 and 21 1955 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refrigerator Safety Devices Hearing 88 1 September 23 1963 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors in the Management of the Ice Cooled Refrigerator in the Home written by Ruth Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of Minnesota written by Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Refrigerator and the Universe written by Martin Goldstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the laws of thermodynamics for science buffs and neophytes alike. The authors present the historical development of thermodynamics and show how its laws follow from the atomic theory of matter, then give examples of the laws' applicability to such phenomena as the formation of diamonds from graphite and how blood carries oxygen.
