History of artificial cold, scientific, technological and cultural issues [electronic resource] / Kostas Gavroglu, editor.
Gavroglou, Kōstas, editor of compilation.
2014
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Title
History of artificial cold, scientific, technological and cultural issues [electronic resource] / Kostas Gavroglu, editor.
ISBN
9789400771994 (eBook)
9400771991 (eBook)
9789400771987
9400771983
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7199-4
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-7199-4 doi
Call Number
QC278
Dewey Decimal Classification
621.5/6
Summary
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 kinds of scientific, technological as well as cultural dimensions. For example, the common home refrigerator has brought about unimaginably deep changes to our everyday lives changing drastically eating habits and shopping mentalities. From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st, issues related to the production and exploitation of artificial cold have never stopped to provide us with an incredibly interesting set of phenomena, novel theoretical explanations, amazing possibilities concerning technological applications and all encompassing cultural repercussions. The discovery of the unexpected and "bizarre" phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity, the necessity to incorporate macroscopic quantum phenomena to the framework of quantum mechanics, the discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation and high temperature superconductivity, the use of superconducting magnets for high energy particle accelerators, the construction of new computer hardware, the extensive applications of cryomedicine, and the multi billion industry of frozen foods, are some of the more dramatic instances in the history of artificial cold.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gavroglou, Kōstas, editor of compilation.
Series
Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ; v. 299.
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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; Sebastien 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.

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