Cool : how air conditioning changed everything /

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It's July and it's 94 degrees Fahrenheit. What do you do? Blast the air conditioning. It's a modern miracle of convenience and cooling. How did it happen? Sal Basile's narrative history traces the origins one of the machines we take for granted. It's a contraption that makes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Basile, Salvatore (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Air conditioning > Efficiency.
Climatisation > Rendement.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Construction > Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning.
Klimaanlage.
Effizienz.
Alfred Wolff.
American history.
Carrier.
John Gorrie.
New York City History.
Popular culture.
advertising history.
air conditioner.
air conditioning history.
air conditioning.
architecture.
climate change.
cooling.
man-made weather.
mechanical ventilation.
motion picture history.
radio history.
television history.
theater history.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Ice, air, and crowd poison
  • The wondrous comfort of ammonia
  • For paper, not people
  • Coolth: everybody's doing it
  • Big ideas. Bold concepts. Bad timing
  • From home front to each home
  • The unnecessary, unhealthy luxury (that no one would give up)
  • Conclusion.

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