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Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1] Jones innovated mobile refrigeration technology.
Frederick Ellsworth Sickels: 1819 Valve for steam engine [333] 2007 Frederick McKinley Jones: 1893 Refrigeration [334] 2007 George Crompton: 1829 Loom [335] 2007 Georges Claude: 1870 Neon lighting [336] 2007 Godfrey Hounsfield: 1919 CT scan [337] 2007 James Bogardus: 1800 Iron frame building [338] 2007 Jesse W. Reno: 1861 Escalator [339] 2007 ...
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893–1961), U.S. – 22 patents, the most prominent for an automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks; James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S. – Ant robotics (robotics) Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russia – probiotics; Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817–1880), France – margarine
Jones was the first African American to receive the award (see Frederick McKinley Jones). In 1997, Ingersoll Rand acquired Thermo King from Westinghouse for $2.56 billion in cash, 13 times earnings, [ 9 ] and added it to its Climate Control Technologies (later Climate Solutions) businesses, alongside Trane and Hussmann.
Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the plastic flying discs that eventually became known as the Frisbee, died at his Utah home on Tuesday. He was 90 and is survived by three children. For ...
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893–1961), African-American inventor; Frederick S. Jones (Frederick Scheetz Jones, 1862–1944), American university professor, dean, and college football coach; Frederic Wood Jones (1879–1954), British anthropologist; Freddie Jones (Frederick Charles Jones, 1927–2019), English actor
Frederick Nelson Jones (F N Jones) (4 May 1881 – 29 August 1962) was a New Zealand saddler, photographer, amusement park owner and inventor. Jones was most well known for his journalistic photographs, and he recorded important Nelson civic events from the early 1900s to 1935.
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