All the Modern Conveniences
American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
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1996
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5227-5 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5227-5 (ISBN)
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A study that explores the development of household plumbing in 19th-century America. Ogle draws on a wide assortment of contemporary sources such as sanitation reports, builders' manuals, fixture catalogues, patent applications and popular scientific tracts.
Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in mansions and first-class hotels. Then, in the decade before mid-century, Americans representing a wider range of economic circumstances began to install household plumbing with increasing eagerness. Ogle draws on a wide assortment of contemporary sources - sanitation reports, builders' manuals, fixture catalogues, patent applications and popular scientific tracts - to show how the demand for plumbing was more by an emerging middle-class culture of convenience, reform and domestic life than by fears abour poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation. She also examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.
Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in mansions and first-class hotels. Then, in the decade before mid-century, Americans representing a wider range of economic circumstances began to install household plumbing with increasing eagerness. Ogle draws on a wide assortment of contemporary sources - sanitation reports, builders' manuals, fixture catalogues, patent applications and popular scientific tracts - to show how the demand for plumbing was more by an emerging middle-class culture of convenience, reform and domestic life than by fears abour poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation. She also examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.
Maureen Ogle is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.1996 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology |
| Zusatzinfo | 32 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Handwerk | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-5227-7 / 0801852277 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-5227-5 / 9780801852275 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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