Book ID: CBB001500399

History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (2014)

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Gavroglu, Kostas (Editor)


Springer


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xi + 285 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Gavroglu, Kostas (2014) Historiographical Issues in the History of Cold. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 1-17). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Balibar, Sebastien (2014) Superfluidity: How Quantum Mechanics Became Visible. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 93-117). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Reif-Acherman, Simon (2014) Domestic Ice-Making Machines 1830--1930. In: History of Artificial Cold: Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (pp. 135-170). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Pellegrino, Emilio Marco
Nagels, Maxime
Anakkar, Abdelkader
Vega, Jesusa
Rowlinson, Sir John S.
Hernández, Raymundo
Concepts
Physics
Chemistry
Theories of heat
Science and technology, relationships
Science and culture
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
Medieval
Places
Scotland
United States
Spain
Russia
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
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