Containing Nature by John Coupland (.ePUB)
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Containing Nature: The Ongoing Invention of Canned Food by John Coupland
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Overview: Chapter 1: All the Science You Don’t See. The way we use technology reflects the way we live our lives. Much of the technology we depend on is “invisible” to us and this has costs for society in general and for technology workers in particular. This book will tell stories from the history of canned food to illustrate the nature of technology work and how it forms our lives.
Chapter 2: The Invention of Canned Food. Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. An entrepreneurial chef perfects a process for preserving food by sealing it in a glass jar with a cork then cooking thoroughly. He struggles in business but writes a book so his methods can be copied. Invention as an evolutionary process. Inventions are only important if they are copied.
Chapter 3: The Invention of the Tin Can. The tangled path from Paris to London in the early 19th century. Appert’s invention is copied and improved. Metal cans become commercially important in the niche market of naval expeditions. Microinventions and macroinventions, sub-technologies and innovations. The phylogenetic tree of canning.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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