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Sto caricando le informazioni... Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked) (edizione 2018)di Jonathan Rees (Autore)
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor. Rees traces the evolution of the natural ice industry from its mechanization in the 1880s through its gradual collapse, which started after World War I. Meatpackers began experimenting with ice refrigeration to ship their products as early as the 1860s. Starting around 1890, large, bulky ice machines the size of small houses appeared on the scene, becoming an important source for the American ice supply. As ice machines shrunk, more people had access to better ice for a wide variety of purposes. By the early twentieth century, Rees writes, ice had become an essential tool for preserving perishable foods of all kinds, transforming what most people ate and drank every day. Reviewing all the inventions that made the ice industry possible and the way they worked together to prevent ice from melting, Rees demonstrates how technological systems can operate without a central controlling force. Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily life in the United States was like between 1880 and 1930. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This was not in any way handled as narrative nonfiction, it is more of a scholarly rendering. I did learn much, as the book is divided into definitive segments, each covering their own topic. The beginning of the ice trade, how is was cut and where, the means used to keep it from melting, how it was delivered, inventions that made it easier, and how what we ate changed because of ice. Seems like it was a common job for Irish immigrants, among others. At one point over 25,000 workers, cu ice on the Hudson River, which was not an easy job and dangerous as well. So parts were fascinating and I loved the black and white photos that were interspersed here and there. Very informative book for those interested in this subject from a historical viewpoint.
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