num_pages: 240
description: In this groundbreaking study, Gail Cooper shows that, from the outset, air conditioning has been the focus of conflict and controversy―well predating today's concerns about fluorocarbons and global warming. While a technical elite of designers, inventors, and corporate pioneers made a comprehensive plans for the new technology, their ideas were challenged by workers, consumers, government regulators, business competitors, and rival professionals.
language: English
title: Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960
titlecomplete: Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
genres: History
ratings_count: 15
series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press