Before the Refrigerator
How We Used to Get Ice
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Word Count
34,000 words, Guess
Page Count
136 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27378602M
- ISBN-139781421424590
- ISBN-101421424592
- OCLC Control Number1035283661
- Library of Congress Control Number2017037463
and 1 more
- Amazon1421424592
Classifications
- LCCHD9481.U5R44 2018
Description
"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"--
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