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- The breakthrough came in 1844 when Dr. John Gorrie, a physician in Florida, invented the first mechanical ice-making machine. Gorrie developed his machine to cool hospital rooms and treat patients suffering from yellow fever, but his invention would have far-reaching effects beyond the medical field.
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Nov 5, 2019 · Before modern refrigeration and freezing technology, people around the world used a variety of resourceful ways to get, store and make ice. Persians invented a brilliant facility called a yakhchal, according to James Hilbish.
Feb 12, 2017 · Men of the early twentieth century and before slipped on their shoes, tightened their belts and prepared their horses for a harvest at a local pond. In their inventory were the necessary utensils for harvesting which included an ice gaff, ice pick, ice tongs and ice saw. It was hard, laborious, cold, dangerous and rewarding.
An icemaker, ice generator, or ice machine may refer to either a consumer device for making ice, found inside a home freezer; a stand-alone appliance for making ice, or an industrial machine for making ice on a large scale. The term "ice machine" usually refers to the stand-alone appliance.
The trade was started by the New England businessman Frederic Tudor in 1806. Tudor shipped ice to the Caribbean island of Martinique, hoping to sell it to wealthy members of the European elite there, using an ice house he had built specially for the purpose.
The ice machines from the late 1800s to the 1930s used toxic gases such as ammonia (NH3), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) as refrigerants. During the 1920s, several fatal accidents were registered. They were caused by the refrigerators leaking methyl chloride.
For millennia, those rich enough got servants to gather snow and ice formed during the winter and stored it in straw-lined underground pits called ‘ice houses’. But the ancient Persians stumbled across a neat bit of physics that allowed them to create ice from water even during the summer.
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Dec 2, 2023 · The machine’s popularity peaked in 1881, when President James Garfield lay dying at the White House from a gunshot wound. His nurses used the apparatus to cool the room and keep the president comfortable. The cost of ice continued to fall, giving rise to new industries.
