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Ice house near Arcen Castle in Arcen, Netherlands. An ice house, or icehouse, is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator. Some were underground chambers, usually man-made, close to natural sources of winter ice such as freshwater lakes, but many were buildings with various types ...
The museum covers all aspects of the UK's waterways. The main exhibitions in the museum cover the following topics: History of the London canals, the Regents Canal in particular. Water and Locks - canal engineering. Boats and Cargoes. Methods of traction by horses, internal combustion engines, and miniature tractors. Carlo Gatti and the ice trade.
Ice being stacked inside a warehouse at Barrytown on the Hudson River. Despite this emerging competition, natural ice remained vital to North American and European economies, with demand driven up by rising living standards. [116] The huge demand for ice in the 1880s drove the natural ice trade to continue to expand. [117]
While the ice-skating rink could open from 6 a.m. to midnight, the warehouses are proposed to be 24-hour operations. Fishinger said from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. there would be 11 truck trips.
Yakhchāl. A yakhchāl ( Persian: یخچال "ice pit"; yakh meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of ice house, which also made ice. They are primarily found in the Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e-Kavir deserts, whose climates range from cold (BWk) to hot (BWh) desert regions. In present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, the ...
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. ( ICE) is an American multinational financial services company formed in 2000 that operates global financial exchanges and clearing houses and provides mortgage technology, data and listing services. Listed on the Fortune 500, S&P 500, and Russell 1000, the company owns exchanges ...
The Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (横浜赤レンガ倉庫, Yokohama Akarenga Sōko) is a historical building that is used as a complex that includes a shopping mall, banquet hall, and event venues. The complex, officially known as the Newport Pier Bonded Warehouse (新港埠頭保税倉庫, Shinkō Futō Hozei Sōko), was originally used as ...
Additions for later owners including Hendler's Creamery for dairy products and their locally famous brand of ice cream, were built in 1915-20 and 1949. It is also connected to a one-story brick building built in the 1960s. The second building complex is a 33,504-square-foot (3,112.6 m 2) brick warehouse structure built from 1923 to 1927.