Refrigerator
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781628924329
Subjects: Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
Description: 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 contai.