Gantz, Caroll

Refrigeration : A history / Carroll Gantz - North Carolina : Morgan & Claypool, c2015 - xi, 91 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natural cooling and ice -- Mechanically manufactured ice -- Electricity and invention -- Early electric refrigerators -- Gas refrigeration and air conditioners -- The rise of fashion and the depression -- The design decade -- Postwar refrigeration -- Regulations and climate change -- Epilogue: Snow and ice redux.

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REFRIGERATION AND REFRIGERATING MACHINERY

TP 492 .G36 2015