001477656 000__ 06329nam\a22011175i\4500 001477656 001__ 1477656 001477656 003__ DE-B1597 001477656 005__ 20231026034821.0 001477656 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477656 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477656 008__ 230808t20142014nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477656 020__ $$a9780823261789 001477656 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823261789$$2doi 001477656 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)554974 001477656 035__ $$a(OCoLC)889302790 001477656 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477656 0410_ $$aeng 001477656 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477656 050_4 $$aTH7687.5.B375 2014eb 001477656 072_7 $$aTEC005050$$2bisacsh 001477656 08204 $$a697 001477656 084__ $$aZI 8700$$2rvk 001477656 1001_ $$aBasile, Salvatore, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477656 24510 $$aCool :$$bHow Air Conditioning Changed Everything /$$cSalvatore Basile. 001477656 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2014] 001477656 264_4 $$c©2014 001477656 300__ $$a1 online resource (288 p.) 001477656 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477656 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477656 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477656 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477656 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Ice, Air, and Crowd Poison -- $$t2. The Wondrous Comfort of Ammonia -- $$t3. For Paper, Not People -- $$t4. Coolth: Everybody's Doing It -- $$t5. Big Ideas. Bold Concepts. Bad Timing. -- $$t6. From Home Front to Each Home -- $$t7. The Unnecessary, Unhealthy Luxury (That No One Would Give Up) -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477656 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477656 520__ $$aIt's a contraption that makes the lists of "Greatest Inventions Ever"; at the same time, it's accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless lives . . . while causing countless deaths. Most of us are glad it's there. But we don't know how, or when, it got there.It's air conditioning.For thousands of years, humankind attempted to do something about the slow torture of hot weather. Everything was tried: water power, slave power, electric power, ice made from steam engines and cold air made from deadly chemicals, "zephyrifers," refrigerated beds, ventilation amateurs and professional air-sniffers. It wasn't until 1902 when an engineer barely out of college developed the "Apparatus for Treating Air"-a machine that could actually cool the indoors-and everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. That wasn't the case. There was a time when people "ignored" hot weather while reading each day's list of heat-related deaths, women wore furs in the summertime, heatstroke victims were treated with bloodletting . . . and the notion of a machine to cool the air was considered preposterous, even sinful. The story of air conditioning is actually two stories: the struggle to perfect a cooling device, and the effort to convince people that they actually needed such a thing. With a cast of characters ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Nixon to Felix the Cat, Cool showcases the myriad reactions to air conditioning- some of them dramatic, many others comical and wonderfully inconsistent-as it was developed and presented to the world. Here is a unique perspective on air conditioning's fascinating history: how we rely so completely on it today, and how it might change radically tomorrow. 001477656 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477656 546__ $$aIn English. 001477656 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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