All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890Until 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
ONE Domestic Reform and American Household | 8 |
TWO Water Supply and Waste Disposal for | 36 |
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| Title | All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History Series Issue 20 of Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology, ISSN 2470-2773 Volume 20 of New series], [Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology |
| Author | Maureen Ogle |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 7, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0801852277, 9780801852275 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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