Before the refrigerator : how we used to get ice /
This book considers the details of the technologies that made ice production, storage and transportation possible, how the technologies that made up this system improved over time and the many effects of these improvements on the people that benefited from these changes. While increased access to ic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | How things worked.
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| Summary: | This book considers the details of the technologies that made ice production, storage and transportation possible, how the technologies that made up this system improved over time and the many effects of these improvements on the people that benefited from these changes. While increased access to ice may seem like a small change to anyone who can get all the ice they want, anytime they want, just by opening their freezer door, access to ice was a miracle to the ice industry's first customers. Understanding how that miracle happened demonstrates the interaction between technology and culture over time as well as how the many benefits that those changes brought to Americans affected people up and down the economic ladder. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 121 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421424583 1421424584 9781421424590 1421424592 |