TY - BOOK ID - 137898481 TI - Refrigeration : a history PY - 2015 SN - 9780786476879 0786476877 PB - Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137898481 AB - "Humans coped with heat by harvesting ice and devising cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By mid 1800s, they developed machines to manufacture ice. By early 1900s, engineers developed refrigerators, which by 1927 were affordable household appliances. Today refrigeration preserves food for worldwide distribution, makes tropical climates habitable, saves lives with medical applications and enables space flight"-- ER -