Comforts of Home: the American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience
- List Price: $30.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Description:
American social historian Ierley does not bring his treatment up to cordless telephones and interactive CDs, but traces the development of comforts from the early 19th century to the 1920s when at least many houses had the basic elements that preceded the electronic age. Central heating, he finds, was the first, followed by lighting, kitchen, bathroom, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, and others.
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