Refrigeration: A History, by Carroll Gantz
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Refrigeration: A History, by Carroll Gantz
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For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By the mid 1800s, people began developing huge refrigeration machines to manufacture ice. By the early 1900s, engineers developed electric domestic refrigerators, which by 1927 were affordable convenient household appliances. By then, an increasingly sophisticated public demanded more modern-looking appliances than engineers could produce, and a new breed of designers entered the manufacturing world to provide them. During the Depression, modern designs not only increased sales but resulted in the kitchen appliances we now use. Today refrigeration preserves perishable food for worldwide distribution, makes tropical climates habitable for millions, saves lives with medical applications and enables space flight.
Refrigeration: A History, by Carroll Gantz- Amazon Sales Rank: #1640422 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.15" h x .36" w x 5.81" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 280 pages
Review "Recommended." --Booklist
From the Inside Flap For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By the mid 1800s, people began developing huge refrigeration machines to manufacture ice. By the early 1900s, engineers developed electric domestic refrigerators, which by 1927 were affordable convenient household appliances. By then, an increasingly sophisticated public demanded more modern-looking appliances than engineers could produce, and a new breed of designers entered the manufacturing world to provide them. During the Depression, modern designs not only increased sales but resulted in the kitchen appliances we now use. Today refrigeration preserves perishable food for worldwide distribution, makes tropical climates habitable for millions, saves lives with medical applications and enables space flight.
About the Author Carroll Gantz is a professional industrial designer who holds several dozen patents. A long-time Black & Decker design director, and a Carnegie Mellon University professor, he is a past president of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He lives on Seabrook Island in South Carolina.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Maybe more than you want to know about refrigeration, but an engaging, if somewhat superficial history. By lyndonbrecht This is an interesting read, but the book strikes me as not well organized. Gantz writes well and with enthusiasm, but he cobbles together three themes--the history of and impact of refrigeration, the history of specific appliance development and product design. The last quarter of the book seems to be to be mostly about product design rather than a more detailed consideration of, say, air conditioning technology. I think it would be a better book if these were separated out into sections, perhaps general history, history and development of specific technologies and design.There are lots of illustrations that cover some of the inventors, and many products from specific decades that help his descriptions become clearer.Among the interesting details are older folk technologies for cooling, and that the classical Greeks and Romans enjoyed snow and ice cooled foods, preserving ice in insulated structures (used loosely--an insulated hole in the ground or a modified cave would work). The business of insulated ice so as to make it available in warm seasons was far more widespread and older than I had known. I knew about Yankee merchants selling ice in places like Havana and New Orleans. The ice trade itself in the US alone was large, using machines to make ice then delivered by horse-drawn wagons seems ironic, but 8 million tons of ice was in the industry in the US in 1880, using a wild variety of ice boxes.The story of the development of ice-making, refrigerating and air conditioning technologies dominates the latter portion of the book. It's also an interesting example of technologies merging. Some big cooling systems were steam-powered, but the rather quick electrification of the US after 1900 fed into other systems, including powering smaller and therefore home-usable systems. In 1907 8% of US homes were wired for electricity, 16% by 1912 and 35% by 1920. DC and AC current systems vied for awhile, and it took some time to develop a market system--electricity suppliers sold home appliances to increase sales of their energy product, for example.There's lots more. The book gets slow in spots, but the author's enthusiasm never flags. Chapter 9 discusses changes in regulation and climate change and what it means for the industries, and the challenges that are offered by need for efficiency and reduced pollution. Chapter 10 is something of an anticlimax, "Snow and Ice Redux," which points out winter sports, skiing, iceboating, ice hotels, ice sculpture and more.
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