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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography             Publisher Weekly Review         Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Jackson, Tom, 1972- author.     Subjects     Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery -- History.     Food -- Preservation -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jackson, Tom, 1972- author.       by title:      Chilled : how refrig...         MARC Display

Chilled : how refrigeration changed the world, and might do so again / Tom Jackson. by Jackson, Tom, 1972- author. Subjects Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery -- History.   Food -- Preservation -- History. Publisher Info:  London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015. Description:  272 pages ; 22 cm RDA Types:  text unmediated volume ISBN:  9781472911438 (hbk.) 1472911431 (hbk.) 9781472911445 (paperback) Contents:  Old-school cool -- Conjuring cold -- Applying pressure -- The temper of the air -- Chill and the airs -- Going for the motion -- An ice king, or two -- Taking the heat -- Living in the chain -- Deep cold -- The hidden chill -- The future is cold. Format Book:  Summary:  "The refrigerator may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of twentieth-century science--lifesaver, food preserver, social liberator. Part historical narrative, part scientific decoder, Chilled looks at early efforts to harness the cold at the ice pits of Persia (Iranians still call their fridges the "ice pit") and ice harvests on the Regents Canal. As people learned more about what cold actually was, scientists invented machines for producing it on demand. The discovery of refrigeration and its applications features a cast of characters that includes the Ice King of Boston, Galileo, Francis Bacon, an expert on gnomes, a magician who chilled a cathedral, a Renaissance duke addicted to iced eggnog, and a Bavarian nobleman from New England. Refrigeration technology has been crucial in some of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last one hundred years, from the discovery of superconductors to the search for the Higgs boson. Refrigeration is needed to make soap, store penicillin, and without it, in vitro fertilization would be impossible. 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" -- No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Top Floor 621.5609 JAC Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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