Title: Refrigeration : a history /
Authors: Gantz, Carroll, 1931-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery History.; Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
Abstract: "Humans coped with heat by harvesting ice and devising cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By mid 1800s, they developed machines to manufacture ice. By early 1900s, engineers developed refrigerators, which by 1927 were affordable household appliances. Today refrigeration preserves food for worldwide distribution, makes tropical climates habitable, saves lives with medical applications and enables space flight"--
Contents: Natural cooling and ice -- Mechanically manufactured ice -- Electricity and invention -- Early electric refrigerators -- Gas refrigeration and air conditioners -- The rise of fashion and the Depression -- The design decade -- Postwar refrigeration -- Regulation and climate change -- Epilogue : snow and ice redux.