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In the home Each of these photographs give us clues about ways of keeping food cool. Can you work out how each method of cooling would work? DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY SHEET in Acrobat PDF format (81Kb) FURTHER INFORMATION: Home refrigerators were available in Australia around 1910 but very few families could afford them. It was not until the 1950's that family houses began to have refrigerators. Before refrigeration butchers would hang their meat in the shade of a tree or under a veranda to keep it cool. Some people used Coolgardie safes. Flies could not get inside the wire of the safe and a wet cloth outside the wire sent a cool breeze through it. Digging a cellar under the ground was another way of trying to keep food cool. Many people had ice delivered to their homes a couple of times a week. They put the ice in an ice-chest to keep food cool.
Launch the interactive and click to enlarge this photograph of the iron to see if it has an electric cord. How do you think the iron might have worked? Think of some electric appliances which could be powered differently in your home now or in the future.
Look at this photograph of an early kitchen. Why does the stove have a chimney? Discuss how this kitchen is different from the kitchen in your house. How would those differences affect you? |
