Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America

by Jonathan Rees

Book Overview

How we keep food cold while the house stays warm.

Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold--from cutting river and lake ice and shipping it to consumers for use in their iceboxes to the development of electrically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421411067
• ISBN13: 9781421411064
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"