Refrigerator
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Author |
: Steve Silverman |
Publisher |
: Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2001-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0740714198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780740714191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Einstein's Refrigerator by : Steve Silverman
Presents strange-but-true stories about such topics as a headless chicken that lived eighteen months, Albert Einstein's designs for refrigerators, and how a Donald Duck cartoon saved a ship.
Author |
: Jonathan Rees |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 2015-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781628924343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1628924349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Refrigerator by : Jonathan Rees
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand years-but have you ever thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box humming in the background displays more than you might expect, even who you are and the society in which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror-and what it reflects is chilling indeed. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Author |
: Helen Peavitt |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2017-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780237978 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780237979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Refrigerator by : Helen Peavitt
From a late-night snack to a cold beer, there’s nothing that whets the appetite quite like the suctioning sound of a refrigerator being opened. In the early 1930s fewer than ten percent of US households had a mechanical refrigerator, but today they are nearly universal, the primary means by which we keep our food and drink fresh. Yet, for as ubiquitous as refrigerators are, most of us take them for granted, letting them blend into the background of our kitchens, basements, garages, and all the other places where they seem so perfectly convenient. In this book, Helen Peavitt amplifies the hum of the refrigerator in technological history, showing us just how it became such an essential appliance. Peavitt takes us to the early closets, cabinets, and boxes into which we first started packing ice and the various things we were trying to keep cool. From there she charts the development of mechanical and chemical technologies that have led to modern-day refrigeration on both industrial and domestic scales, showing how these technologies have created a completely new method of preserving and transporting perishable goods, having a profound impact on society from the nineteenth century and on. She explores the ways the marketing of refrigerators have expressed and influenced our notions of domestic life, and she looks at how refrigeration has altered the agriculture and food industries as well as our own appetites. Strikingly illustrated, this book offers an informative and entertaining history of an object that has radically changed—in a little over one hundred years—one of the most important things we do: eat.
Author |
: Selma Boyd |
Publisher |
: Franklin Watts |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 1982-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0531044505 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780531044506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Footprints in the Refrigerator by : Selma Boyd
When mysterious footprints appear in the refrigerator, it is very difficult to pinpoint the perpetrator.
Author |
: Tim Egan |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 37 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780618631544 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0618631542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pink Refrigerator by : Tim Egan
“Try to do as little as possible.” This was Dodsworth’s motto. One morning, on his daily trip to the junkyard, he discovers a pink refrigerator. There’s not much to say about a pink refrigerator, except this one had a note on it. The note said, “Paint pictures.” And so Dodsworth did. The next day, a new note appeared on the pink refrigerator. And the day after that, and the day after that. Dodsworth liked doing as little as possible. But the pink refrigerator had big plans for him . . .
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112121382391 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Refrigerator Safety Devices by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Author |
: Carol Barnier |
Publisher |
: YWAM Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2000-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1883002702 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781883002701 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Get Your Child Off the Refrigerator and on to Learning by : Carol Barnier
This is the only resource out there for an audience that is desperately seeking it. Using techniques highly successful with any child who struggles with focus, parents learn how to teach their child tomorrow. Includes reproducible aids.
Author |
: Alice Kuipers |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 71 |
Release |
: 2012-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443403603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443403601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life On The Refrigerator Door by : Alice Kuipers
Life on the Refrigerator Door is a poignant and deeply moving first novel about the bonds of love and frustration that tie mothers and daughters together. Told entirely in a series of notes left on the kitchen fridge—some casual, some intimate, some funny, some angry—it is the story of nine months in the life of 15-year-old Claire and her single mother. Preoccupied with their busy separate lives, rarely in the same room at the same time, they talk to each other in a series of short snippets that reflect the daily drama of school, boyfriends, work and chores that make up their days. Yet the mundane soon becomes extraordinary when a crisis overtakes their lives—a momentous change that will redefine their relationship and unfold in their exchanges on the refrigerator door. Short, powerful and unforgettable, Kuipers’ novel looks deep into the complex relationship between mothers and daughters, and the distances that can open up between people who live together but exist in their own worlds. Unfolding in a wonderfully simple and intimate narrative, Life on the Refrigerator Door will appeal to readers across the generations, delivering universal lessons about love.
Author |
: Jonathan Rees |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 134 |
Release |
: 2018-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421424590 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421424592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before the Refrigerator by : Jonathan Rees
How 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
Author |
: Tom Jackson |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2015-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472911421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472911423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chilled by : Tom Jackson
The refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science – life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator, while the science of refrigeration is crucial, not just in transporting food around the globe but in a host of branches on the scientific tree. Refrigerators, refrigeration and its discovery and applications provides the remarkable and eye-opening backdrop to Chilled, the story of how science managed to rewrite the rules of food, and how the technology whirring behind every refrigerator is at play, unseen, in a surprisingly broad sweep of modern life. Part historical narrative, part scientific mystery-lifter, Chilled looks at the ice-pits of Persia (Iranians still call their fridge the 'ice-pit'), reports on a tug of war between 16 horses and the atmosphere, bears witness to ice harvests on the Regents Canal, and shows how bleeding sailors demonstrated to ship's doctors that heat is indestructible, featuring a cast of characters such as the Ice King of Boston, Galileo, Francis Bacon, and the ostracised son of a notorious 18th-century French traitor. As people learned more about what cold actually was, scientists invented machines for making it, with these first used in earnest to chill Australian lager. The principles behind those white boxes in the kitchen remain the same today, but refrigeration is not all about food – for example, a refrigerator is needed to make soap, penicillin or orange squash; without it, IVF would be impossible. Refrigeration technology has also been crucial in some of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last 100 years, from the discovery of superconductors to the search for the Higgs boson. And the fridge will still be pulling the strings behind the scenes as teleporters and intelligent computer brains turn our science-fiction vision of the future into fact.