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All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Paperback - 2000

by Ogle, Prof Maureen

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  • Title All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
  • Author Ogle, Prof Maureen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, London
  • Date 2000-03-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # P11H-01770
  • ISBN 9780801863707 / 0801863708
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.03 x 0.74 in (22.94 x 15.32 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044412
  • Dewey Decimal Code 696.109

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From the publisher

As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their obsession with cleanliness. Although plumbing has occupied a central position in American life since the mid-nineteenth century, little scholarly attention has been paid to its history. Now, in All the Modern Conveniences, Maureen Ogle presents a fascinating study that explores the development of household plumbing in nineteenth-century America.

Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in mansions and first-class hotels. Then, in the decade before midcentury, 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 prompted more by an emerging middle-class culture of convenience, reform, and domestic life than by fears about 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.

First line

During a 1991 trip to London, I visited the city's Science Museum.

About the author

Maureen Ogle is former assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.

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