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020 _a9781421424583 (hbk : alk. paper)
020 _z1421424584 (hbk : alk. paper)
020 _z9781421424590 (pbk : alk. paper)
020 _z1421424592 (pbk : alk. paper)
020 _z9781421424606 (electronic)
020 _z1421424606 (electronic)
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_beng
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043 _an-us---
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aHD9481
_b.U5 R44 2018
100 1 _aRees, Jonathan,
_d1966-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBefore the refrigerator :
_bhow we used to get ice /
_cJonathan Rees, Colorado State University-Pueblo.
264 1 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c©2018.
264 4 _c©2018.
300 _a 121 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
_btxt
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
_bn
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
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490 0 _aHow things worked
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aHow to harvest ice -- How to manufacture ice -- How ice (and the perishable food it preserved) make it to consumers -- How ice changed the American diet and American life -- How household refrigerators changed the ice market forever.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aIce industry
_xTechnological innovations
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aIce industry
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
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