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100 1 _aBasile, Salvatore,
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245 1 0 _aCool :
_bhow air conditioning changed everything /
_cSalvatore Basile.
260 _aNew York :
_bFordham University Press,
_c(c)2014.
300 _a1 online resource (288 pages) :
_billustrations, portraits
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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520 0 _aIt'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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650 0 _aAir conditioning
_xEfficiency.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell