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Machines are frozen spirit : the scientification of refrigeration and brewing in the 19th century : a Weberian interpretation

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Machines are frozen spirit : the scientification of refrigeration and brewing in the 19th century : a Weberian interpretation / Mikael Hård.
Author
Hård, Mikael.
Publication
Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 1994.

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Description
275 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  • Linde, Carl, 1842-1934
  • Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery > Germany > History > 19th century
  • Technology > History > 19th century
  • Brewing industry > Germany > History > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-270) and index.
Contents
  • I. Refrigeration Technology Before 1870. 1. The Economic, Technological, and Scientific Background. 2. The Classificatory Ideal Types of Natural and Mechanical Refrigeration. 3. Archetypes and Types in Mechanical Refrigeration. 4. The Social Carriers and Concerned Parties of Refrigeration Technology -- II. The Scientification of Refrigeration Technology, 1870-1893. 5. The Beginning: Carl Linde's Early Papers. 6. The Institutional Background: School Culture Education. 7. The Intellectual Context: Rationality and the School of Technical Thermodynamics. 8. The Response: The Brewing and Machine Industries Support Invention. 9. The Expansion: The Linde Co. Supports Innovation and Diffusion. 10. The Final Word: The Scientification of the Marketplace. 11. Linde Refrigeration: Social Carriers, Translators, and Agency Networks -- III. The Rationalization of the Brewing Industry. 12. The History of the Brewing Industry: Craft and Factory. 13. The Mechanization of Brewing Refrigeration.
  • 14. The Scientification of Brewing.
ISBN
  • 3593350130 (Campus Verlag)
  • 0813321670 (Westview Press)
LCCN
94167898
OCLC
ocm30265406
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