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Why One Refrigeration History Book Was Not EnoughI first became interested in the history of refrigeration while I was in graduate school, when I started leafing through back issues of a late-nineteenth century trade journal housed in the engineering library...

I have a confession to make: I wrote a book about the history of refrigeration in the United States, but I didn’t realize that Seven Eleven started life as an ice delivery company until a radio producer told me. To be fair, there were many, many ice companies...

In the late-1990s, the fourth floor of the Engineering Library at the University of Wisconsin – Madison was filled with hundred-year old trade journals. I was writing a dissertation about the steel industry, but when you first came off the elevator right at...