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- catalog abstract "In this groundbreaking study, Gail Cooper shows that, from the outset, air conditioning has been the focus of conflict and controversy - well predating today's concerns about fluorocarbons and global warming. When at the turn of the century a technical elite of designers, inventors, and corporate pioneers launched this promising new technology, their ideas were challenged by workers, consumers, government regulators, business competitors, and rival professionals. Cooper describes the efforts of engineers to achieve artificial climates indoors. Such "man-made weather" helped transform the new motion-picture theaters of the teens and twenties into sumptuous palaces of luxury and comfort. Cooper demonstrates how the lure of the open air, from rooftop schoolrooms to open-air theaters to the front porch, challenged air conditioning. Americans were slow to give up the social rituals of hot-weather living - the cold drink, the cool clothes, the summer vacation - for the comforts of either the window air conditioner or the central system.".
- catalog contributor b10653669.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity -- Ch. 2. Custom Production, Industrial Processing, and Engineering Guarantees -- Ch. 3. Defining the Healthy Indoor Environment, 1904-1929 -- Ch. 4. Motion-Picture Theaters, Human Comfort, and Recirculation, 1911-1930 -- Ch. 5. Mass Production, the Residential Market, and the Window Air Conditioner, 1928-1940 -- Ch. 6. From a Luxury to a Necessity, 1942-1960 -- Ch. 7. Consumers and Air Conditioning.".
- catalog description "Cooper demonstrates how the lure of the open air, from rooftop schoolrooms to open-air theaters to the front porch, challenged air conditioning. Americans were slow to give up the social rituals of hot-weather living - the cold drink, the cool clothes, the summer vacation - for the comforts of either the window air conditioner or the central system.".
- catalog description "In this groundbreaking study, Gail Cooper shows that, from the outset, air conditioning has been the focus of conflict and controversy - well predating today's concerns about fluorocarbons and global warming. When at the turn of the century a technical elite of designers, inventors, and corporate pioneers launched this promising new technology, their ideas were challenged by workers, consumers, government regulators, business competitors, and rival professionals. Cooper describes the efforts of engineers to achieve artificial climates indoors. Such "man-made weather" helped transform the new motion-picture theaters of the teens and twenties into sumptuous palaces of luxury and comfort.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-221) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 228 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Air-conditioning America.".
- catalog identifier "0801857163 (acid-free, recycled paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Air-conditioning America.".
- catalog isPartOf "Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Air-conditioning America.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "697.9/3/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Air conditioning United States History.".
- catalog subject "TH7687.5 .C66 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity -- Ch. 2. Custom Production, Industrial Processing, and Engineering Guarantees -- Ch. 3. Defining the Healthy Indoor Environment, 1904-1929 -- Ch. 4. Motion-Picture Theaters, Human Comfort, and Recirculation, 1911-1930 -- Ch. 5. Mass Production, the Residential Market, and the Window Air Conditioner, 1928-1940 -- Ch. 6. From a Luxury to a Necessity, 1942-1960 -- Ch. 7. Consumers and Air Conditioning.".
- catalog title "Air-conditioning America : engineers and the controlled environment, 1900-1960 / Gail Cooper.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".