Air-conditioning America : engineers and the controlled environment, 1900-1960 /
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| Author / Creator: | Cooper, Gail, 1954- |
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| Imprint: | Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998. |
| Description: | x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; new ser., no. 23. |
| Subject: | Air conditioning -- United States -- History. Air conditioning. United States. History. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3055403 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity
- Ch. 2. Custom Production, Industrial Processing, and Engineering Guarantees
- Ch. 3. Defining the Healthy Indoor Environment, 1904-1929
- Ch. 4. Motion-Picture Theaters, Human Comfort, and Recirculation, 1911-1930
- Ch. 5. Mass Production, the Residential Market, and the Window Air Conditioner, 1928-1940
- Ch. 6. From a Luxury to a Necessity, 1942-1960
- Ch. 7. Consumers and Air Conditioning.
