Gantz, Caroll

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

Includes bibliography 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
AIR CONDITIONING

TP 492 .G36 2015