Before the Refrigerator (Written by Jonathan Rees)

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Title: Before the Refrigerator
Series: How Things Worked, Book 9
Author: Jonathan Rees
Narrator: Gary L Willprecht
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 02-21-24
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: History

Publisher's Summary: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor.