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History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 299
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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.
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