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Heat and cold: mastering the great indoors. A selective history of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration from the ancients to the 1993s.

Author(s) : DONALDSON B., NAGENGAST B.

Type of monograph: Other

Summary

This book traces the growth of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating technology from its ancient beginnings to twentieth century sophistication: the story of people and inventions that changed forever the way people live indoors. Extract of contents: mythology of fire; heating and cooling of the ancients; early ventilation, heating and refrigeration; eighteenth-century heating and cooling; the natural ice industry; nineteenth-century heating, ventilating, and mechanical cooling; refrigeration of the nineteenth century; electric power changes the industry; the early-twentieth century: 1900-1930.

Details

  • Original title: Heat and cold: mastering the great indoors. A selective history of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration from the ancients to the 1993s.
  • Record ID : 1995-1984
  • Languages: English
  • Publication: ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) - United states/United states
  • Publication date: 1994
  • Source: Source: 339 p. (23.5 x 31.2); fig.; phot.; tabl.; append.; USD 99.00.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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