Gavroglu, Kostas (Editor)
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 kinds of scientific, technological as well as cultural dimensions. For example, the common home refrigerator has brought about unimaginably deep changes to our everyday lives changing drastically eating habits and shopping mentalities. From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st, issues related to the production and exploitation of artificial cold have never stopped to provide us with an incredibly interesting set of phenomena, novel theoretical explanations, amazing possibilities concerning technological applications and all encompassing cultural repercussions. The discovery of the unexpected and "bizarre" phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity, the necessity to incorporate macroscopic quantum phenomena to the framework of quantum mechanics, the discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation and high temperature superconductivity, the use of superconducting magnets for high energy particle accelerators, the construction of new computer hardware, the extensive applications of cryomedicine, and the multi billion industry of frozen foods, are some of the more dramatic instances in the history of artificial cold.--Worldcat
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Essay Review Ede, Andrew (2015) The Scientists Who Came in from the Cold. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 155-157).
Chapter Gavroglu, Kostas (2014) Historiographical Issues in the History of Cold. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 1-17).
Chapter Christopoulou, Christiana (2014) Early Modern History of Cold: Robert Boyle and the Emergence of a New Experimental Field in 17th Century Experimental Philosophy. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 21-51).
Chapter Rowlinson, Sir John S. (2014) James Dewar and the Road to the Liquefaction of Hydrogen. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 53-64).
Chapter Delft, Dirk van (2014) The Cryogenic Laboratory of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: An Early Case of Big Science. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 65-81).
Chapter Joas, Christian; Waysand, Georges (2014) Superconductivity: A Challenge to Modern Physics. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 83-92).
Chapter Balibar, Sebastien (2014) Superfluidity: How Quantum Mechanics Became Visible. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 93-117).
Chapter Knolle, Johannes; Joas, Christian (2014) The Physics of Cold in the Cold War: “On-Line Computing” between the ICBM Program and Superconductivity. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 119-132).
Chapter Reif-Acherman, Simon (2014) Domestic Ice-Making Machines 1830--1930. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 135-170).
Chapter Dienel, Hans-Liudger (2014) Carl Linde and His Relationship with Georges Claude: The Cooperation between Two Independent Inventors in Cryogenics and Its Side Effects. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 171-188).
Chapter Syon, Guillaume de (2014) Meeting Artificial Cold: Expositions and Refrigeration, 1896--1937. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 189-198).
Chapter Thoms, Ulrike (2014) The Introduction of Frozen Foods in West Germany and Its Integration into the Daily Diet. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 201-229).
Chapter Finstad, Terje (2014) The Means of Modernization: Freezing Technologies and the Cultural Politics of Everyday Life, Norway 1940--1965. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 231-249).
Chapter Rees, Jonathan (2014) The Invention of Refrigerated Transport and the Development of the International Dressed Meat Trade. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 251-265).
Chapter Papanelopoulou, Faidra (2014) “Fresher Than Fresh”. Remarks on Consumer Attitudes towards the Development of the Cold Chain in Post-WWII Greece. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 267-280).
Chapter
Rowlinson, Sir John S.;
(2014)
James Dewar and the Road to the Liquefaction of Hydrogen
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Article
Burke, Katie;
(2013)
Absolutely Negative
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Fairman, Elisabeth R.;
Art, Yale Center for British;
(2014)
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World
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Book
Vega, Jesusa;
(2010)
Ciencia, Arte e Ilusión en la España Ilustrada
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Article
Shulga, Inna;
(2012)
On the Origins of Scientific and Academic Work on Technology of Organic Substances in Kharkiv Chemical and Technological Institute: To the 160th Anniversary of Prof. O. P. Lidov
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Book
Paul J. Nahin;
(2020)
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
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Article
Louis Caruana;
(2018)
Mechanistic Trends in Chemistry
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Article
Behrens, Heinrich;
Lankenau, Irmgard;
(2006)
Wissenschaftswachstum in wichtigen naturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert
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Article
Rowlinson, J. S.;
(2009)
The Border between Physics and Chemistry
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Book
Wallach, Jennifer Jensen;
(2013)
How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
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Article
Raffaele Pisano;
Emilio Marco Pellegrino;
Abdelkader Anakkar;
Maxime Nagels;
(2021)
Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth–twentieth centuries
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Article
Hernández, Raymundo;
Novaro, Octavio;
(2014)
The First Metals in Mendeleiev's Table: Part II. A New Argument against the Placement of Hydrogen Atop the Alkali Metal Column
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Article
Chang, Hasok;
(2002)
Rumford and the Reflection of Radiant Cold: Historical Reflections and Metaphysical Reflexes
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Book
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(2004)
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Chapter
Arabatzis, Theodore;
(2012)
Hidden Entities and Experimental Practice: Renewing the Dialogue Between History and Philosophy of Science
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Thesis
Ekeberg, Bjorn;
(2010)
The Metaphysics Experiment: Modern Physics and the Politics of Nature
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Chapter
Ferdinando Abbri;
(2015)
La struttura della materia
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Hon, Giora;
Schickore, Jutta;
Steinle, Friedrich;
(2009)
Going Amiss in Experimental Research
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Carmelina Imbroscio;
(2003)
Il testo letterario e il sapere scientifico
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Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond;
(2003)
Le miroir, la cornue et la pierre de touche. Ou: que peut la littérature pour la science?
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