Verwandte Artikel zu The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution...

The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience - Hardcover

Ierley, Merritt

 
9780609602997: The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0609602993 ISBN 13: 9780609602997
Verlag: Clarkson Potter, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The author documents two hundred years of bringing comfort to the American household, covering a wide variety of innovations, from the first ovens, bathrooms, furnaces, and washing machines to current appliance technology. 10,000 first printing.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Merritt Ierley, a social historian, is the author of seven books relating to American history and technology, including the recently published Open House: A Guided Tour of the American Home. His other books include Traveling the National Road and With Charity for All: Welfare and Society, Ancient Times to the Present. He was the recipient of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for The Comforts of Home. He lives in northern New Jersey.

Aus dem Klappentext

echnology is nowhere made more personal than at home. Modern convenience shapes our daily routine, making today's American house a place of comfort, the like of which has never been known. Yet of all aspects of modern technology, it is the evolution of what is in the household that has <br>been least written about.<br>        <br>In <b>The Comforts of Home</b>, an unprecedented work written for a general audience with no particular knowledge of science or technology, social historian Merritt Ierley weaves in aspects of architecture, social history, and technology to present an underexplored but central feature of American cultural identity: how our lives are shaped by the domestic technology around us. Here we see a simple brick cubicle with a stove inside it evolve into central heating, a barrel with a large handle become the automatic washing machine, a box lined with charcoal birth the modern refrigerator, and the modern toilet develop from a r

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Clarkson Potter
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0609602993
ISBN 13 
9780609602997
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
287
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
QE GmbH & Co. KG
info@averdo.de

Martinistraße 3
Osnabrück
Deutschland