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Abel, Mary Hinman, 106 Adams, Julius W., 55 air conditioning, 38, 188, 190 Albany, NY, 27 Amana, 170 American Cookery, 132 American Ice Company, 61 American Notes (Dickens), 19 American Radiator Corporation, 118 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 185 Amherst, NH, 130 ammonia, 41, 201n37; aqua ammonia, 51, 159; compared to methyl chloride as refrigerant , 160; explosions of, 41, 103; leaks, 41–43, 84; use in cold storage, 101, 102. See also refrigeration: ammonia compression system Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver), 190 apple pie, 187 apples, 101, 105, 107 Arctic Circle, 110 Argentina, 48, 84, 114 Arkansas, 78 Arrowood, Milton, 105 artificial ice, 35, 39, 46, 48, 54, 57, 64, 65, 69, 70, 71, 74, 132, 153; clarity of, 60; definition of, 30; price of, 67; quality of, 50; regularity of, 56; revival during WWI, 166; safety of, 61; triumph over natural, 75 arugula, 190 Ashton, R.O., 144 Astor, Jacob, 135 Audiffren, 150 Augusta, GA, 16 Austin, Samuel, 24 Australia, 16, 40, 47, 76–77, 82 Bacon, Francis, 1, 5 Baldwin Refrigerator Company, 124 Ballston Spa, NY, 72 Ballston Spa Ice Company, 72 Baltimore, MD, 22, 29, 69, 122, 133 Banana Distributors of New York, 116 bananas, 9, 77, 86–87 barges, 68 Beavan, Colin, 190 Beavan, Michelle, 190 Becker, Victor, 111 Beecher, Catharine, 125, 129 beef, 84, 85, 90–91, 102, 114, 187, 189 beer, 40, 44–45, 58, 132 Ben-Hur Freezer, 171 Berlin, NH, 81 berries, 128 bills of lading, 17 Birdseye, Clarence, 173 Blaisdell & Burley Company, 119–20, 214n2 Bohn Syphon refrigerator, 127 Bombay, India, 12, 25, 133 borax, 2 Boston, MA, 12, 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 72, 102, 114 Boston Gazette, 15 Boston Scientific Refrigerator Company, 127, 133 Boulogne, France, 49 Bourdain, Anthony, 192 Bowenfels, Australia, 114 Boyle Ice Machine Company, 42 Britain. See Great Britain Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 66 Brown, Michael, 182 Buenos Aires, Argentina, 114 Burlington, VT, 124 Index 230 Index Burroughs, John, 27–28 Bush, George W., 182 butchers, 51, 85, 114, 131 butter, 1, 99, 103, 106, 108, 110, 122, 128 cabbage, 78, 117 Calcutta, India, 12, 16, 24, 25, 65 Calcutta Courier, 25 California, 29, 88, 94–96, 97–98, 193 canning, 2, 122, 172 cantaloupes, 27–28, 96–97 Canton, China, 16 Canton, PA, 109 carbon dioxide, 40–41 Carnegie, Andrew, 44 Carré, Ferdinand, 39 carrots, 78 cattle, 83, 89, 101 Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., 187–88 Chapin, Robert Coit, 136 Charleston, SC, 12, 16, 21, 25 Charlestown, MA, 20 Cheyenne, WY, 89 Chicago, IL, 42, 59, 64, 68, 73, 76, 79, 89, 97, 158–60; fire at World’s Columbian Exposition , 31–33, 38, 41, 42, 159, 198n4, 199n5 Chicago Chronicle, 64 Chicago Inter-Ocean, 32 Chicago packinghouses, 76, 84, 91, 102 Chile, 179 China, 20, 180, 187 chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 160–61 C. H. Roloson & Company, 134 Cincinnati, OH, 28, 38, 94 Civil War, American, 10 Clark, Walter E., 108 Clarke, Violet, 158 Cleveland, OH, 37–38, 91 Cleveland Daily Herald, 124 Codrescu, Andrei, 182 cold chain(s), 4, 9, 19, 33, 52, 54, 60, 63, 88, 91, 93, 107, 116, 117, 180, 192, 194; Americans taking for granted, 161; beginning of, 63; cold storage and, 98, 100–101, 112; costs of, 181; decline of ice in, 81; definition of, 3; degradation of, in Great Britain, 27, 48, 131; efficiency of, 70, 72, 90; Frederic Tudor’s development of, 14, 16, 21; for frozen foods, 173–74; in Germany, 132; global, 33, 82–83, 116, 162; growth of, 75; holes in, 76, 78, 106, 113–14, 118; iceboxes and, 121–22; maintaining temperatures along, 77; modern, 10, 111, 184–86, 188–89; natural ice in, 30; refrigerants used in, 39; role of refrigerators in, 141–42, 180; shortening of, 28, 65, 90, 97, 154, 182–83; size of refrigerating machinery and, 50; stages in creation of, 4–8; and transportation , 89 Coldspot, 176 cold storage, 3, 33, 76, 98, 99–116; around the world, 112–16; contemporary, 116; safety of food in, 99–100 Cold Storage (journal), 46, 49, 61, 73 Cold Storage and Ice Trade Journal, 51 cold storage warehouses, 101–3, 109, 111–12 Commissioners of Uniform State Laws, 111 Committee on Awards, World’s Columbian Exposition, 133 compression refrigeration cycle, 36–37 Connecticut, 72 Cooper, Madison, 104–5 Copeland, Edmund, 147, 150 Cornell University, 99, 103, 153 cream, 99 Crosley (company), 166 Cuba, 76, 133 curing, 2 dairies, 51 Dallas, TX, 116 Damon, John W., 19 D. Eddy & Son, 124...

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