Cool : how air conditioning changed everything / Salvatore Basile.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780823261789
- 9780823261796
- TH7687 .C665 2014
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Includes bibliographies and index.
It's July and it's 94 degrees Fahrenheit. What do you do? Blast the air conditioning. It's a modern miracle of convenience and cooling. How did it happen? Sal Basile's narrative history traces the origins one of the machines we take for granted. It'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 a.
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