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Sep 29, 2024 · John Gorrie (born Oct. 3, 1803, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died June 16, 1855, Apalachicola, Fla.) was an American physician who discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration as the result of experiments to lower the temperature of fever patients by cooling hospital rooms. In 1842 Gorrie designed and built an air-cooling apparatus for treating ...
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John B. Gorrie (October 3, 1803 – June 29, 1855) was a Nevisian-born American physician and scientist, credited as the inventor of mechanical refrigeration. [1] [2]Born on the Island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803, he spent his childhood in South Carolina.
Dec 2, 2023 · Full of ice. During the summer of 1841, as the illness swept through town, Gorrie put his ice theory into practice. He found that rubbing ice directly on a patient risked injuring their skin — but wrapping it in cloth would leave the patient damp and prone to additional illness, or so went the thinking of the day.
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Sep 1, 2016 · The search saw many thousands of tons of ice shipped around the world, created a millionaire Ice King, and—if 19th-century doctor and ice-machine inventor John Gorrie had gotten his way—could ...
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1803 – 1855. 1 Patent. Dr. Gorrie invented the ice-making machine and is considered the father of air conditioning and refrigeration. Gorrie’s invention began with an attempt to cure Yellow Fever during an outbreak in Apalachicola in 1841. Convinced that cold was a healer, he advocated the use of ice to cool sickrooms and reduce fever.
Jul 14, 2008 · John Gorrie's ice-making machine got a dramatic debut. Diagram: U.S. Patent 8,080, May 6, 1851. 1850: Florida physician John Gorrie uses his mechanical ice-maker to astonish the guests at a party.
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Jun 5, 2020 · I initially set out to write on Dr. John Gorrie (1803 – June 29, 1855) (Figure 1.) of Apalachicola Florida, who was the first, to create artificial ice in 1847. He had two patents awarded in 1851 for his ice making apparatus. (Figure 2.) Figure 3 is a drawing from Dr. Gorrie’s Patent application. Figure 1.
