About the Author

Gail Cooper is associate professor of history at Lehigh University.

Reviews

"A groundbreaking study in the early business development of a technology that many Americans now take for granted." -- APT Bulletin

"Gail Cooper's study is a welcome addition to the history of technology and urban history. Its strength lies in mapping out fundamental engineering and marketing issues about a technology that has had a profound impact on the very nature of inside environments." -- Martin V. Melosi, American Historical Review

"It sounds like a technical history, and indeed it is, but along the way Cooper shows how ideology, social relations, and economics affect the technology, and how it affects them. In this way, we can learn much from such books -- 'cultural studies' seeming so much livelier when borne up by material culture than by the unsteady scaffold of abstract theory." -- Giles Foden, Times Literary Supplement

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