History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gavroglu, Kostas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 299
• Θέματα: History.; Physics.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 ki...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• About the Authors
• Table Of Contents
• 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; Sébastien 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
• Index.