The birth of the cool

摘要

"An Attack dog of a tycoon" looms large in Salvatore Basile's charming history of a new technology and its struggles with vested interests. Frank Tudor, the Ice King, made a fortune in the 1830s cutting ice from New England rivers and lakes, only to be bested -eventually, and not without a fight - by a technology that promised to chill rooms using, of all things, steam power.