History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues
The history of artificial cold has been a rather intriguing interdisciplinary subject (physics, chemistry, technology, sociology, economics, anthropology, consumer studies) which despite some excellent monographs and research papers, has not been systematically exploited. It is a subject with all ki...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- Table Of Contents
- The History of Artificial Cold –Historiographical issues; Kostas Gavroglu
- Investigating the Very Cold
- Early modern history of cold: Robert Boyle and the emergence of a new experimental field in 17th century experimental philosophy; Christiana Christopoulou
- James Dewar and the Road to the Liquefaction of Hydrogen; Sir John S. Rowlinson
- The cryogenic laboratory of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: an early case of Big 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; Simon 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 Trade; Jonathan Rees
- 'Fresher than fresh’. Remarks on consumer attitudes towards the development of the Cold Chain in post-WWII Greece; Faidra Papanelopoulou
- Index