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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kōstas Gavroglou |
ISBN: | 9789400771987 9400771983 |
OCLC Number: | 865470383 |
Description: | xii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Historiographical issues in the history of cold / Kostas Gavroglu -- Investigating the very cold. Early modern history of cold : Robert Boyle and the emergence of a new experimental field in seventeenth century experimental philosophy / Christiana Christopoulou ; James Dewar and his route to the liquefaction of hydrogen / J.S. Rowlinson ; The cryogenic laboratory of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes : an early case of bib science / Dirk van Delft ; Superconductivity : a challenge to modern physics / Christian Joas and Georges Waysand ; Superfluidity : how quantum mechanics became visible / Sébastien Balibar ; The physics of cold in the Cold War : "on-line computing" between the ICBM program and superconductivity / Johannes Knolle and Christian Joas -- Industries of cold. Domestic ice-making machines 1830-1930 / Simón Reif-Acherman ; Carl Linde and his relationship with Georges Claude : the cooperation between two independent inventors in cryogenics and its side effects / Hans-Liudger Dienel ; Meeting artificial cold : expositions and refrigeration, 1896-1937 / Guillaume de Syon -- Consuming cold. The introduction of frozen foods in West Germany and its integration into the daily diet / Ulrike Thoms ; The means of modernization, freezing technologies and the cultural politics of everyday life, Norway 1940-1965 / Terje Finstad ; The invention of refrigerated transport and the development of the international dressed meat trad / Jonathan Rees ; 'Fresher than fresh' : consumer attitudes towards the development of the cold chain in post-2WW Greece / Faidra Papanelopoulou. |
Series Title: | Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, v. 299. |
Responsibility: | Kostas Gavroglu, editor. |
Abstract:
History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues
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"In History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues, editor Kostas Gavroglu has brought together a well-balanced and very readable collection of essays on the history of the investigation and use of `cold.' ... the collection is well worth reading. ... As an instructor, I would certainly suggest it to a student as a starting point for more detailed research on the subject of cold in science and society." (Andrew Ede, Metascience, December, 2014) Read more...
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