| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
It's July and it's 94 degrees Fahrenheit. What do you do? Blast the air conditioning. It's a modern miracle of convenience and cooling. How did it happen? Sal Basile's narrative history traces the origins one of the machines we take for granted. It's a contraption that makes the lists of ""Greatest Inventions Ever""; at the same time, it's accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless lives ... while causing countless deaths. Most of us a. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Ice, air, and crowd poison -- The wondrous comfort of ammonia -- For paper, not people -- Coolth: everybody's doing it -- Big ideas. Bold concepts. Bad timing -- From home front to each home -- The unnecessary, unhealthy luxury (that no one would give up) -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Air conditioning -- Efficiency.
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Air conditioning -- Efficiency. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Construction -- Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning. |
| Indexed Term |
Alfred Wolff. |
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American history. |
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Carrier. |
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John Gorrie. |
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New York City History. |
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Popular culture. |
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advertising history. |
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air conditioner. |
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air conditioning history. |
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air conditioning. |
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architecture. |
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climate change. |
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cooling. |
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man-made weather. |
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mechanical ventilation. |
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motion picture history. |
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radio history. |
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television history. |
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theater history. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Basile, Salvatore. Cool : how air conditioning changed everything. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2014 x, 278 pages 9780823261765 |
| ISBN |
9780823261789 (electronic book) |
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0823261786 (electronic book) |
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0823261794 |
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9780823261796 |
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9780823261765 |
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082326176X |
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