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Plant ice production in New York doubled between 1900 and 1910 and, by 1914, 26 million tons (23 billion kg) of plant ice was being produced in the U.S. each year in comparison to the 24 million tons (22 billion kg) of naturally harvested ice. [132]
Domestic production and sales were the largest single market source for ice in America and Europe. From the 1850s onwards ice cutting took on large-scale industrial proportions in Germany with Berlin as a key market. [8] In the 1880s, New York City had over 1500 ice delivery wagons and Americans consumed over 5 million tons of ice annually. [9]
Knowledge of precise climatic events decreases as the record goes further back in time. The timeline of glaciation covers ice ages specifically, which tend to have their own names for phases, often with different names used for different parts of the world.
Iceman in Berlin, 1957. An iceman is someone who sells or delivers ice from a wagon, cart, or motor-truck.. The profession was formerly much more common than it is today. From the late 19th century to mid-20th century, in cities and towns icemen would commonly make daily rounds delivering ice for iceboxes before the electric domestic refrigerator became commonplace.
The Ohio History Connection operates dozens of state historic sites across Ohio. Its headquarters is the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, a Brutalist concrete structure. [14] [15] Extensive exhibits cover Ohio's history from the Ice Age to the present. The Center includes state archives and library spaces ...
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At Ohio History Connection, Alligood works with full-time NAGPRA cataloger Stephanie Kline, a part-time NAGPRA assistant and a handful of unpaid interns, often students from Ohio State University ...
Ice storm: Category 2 February 7 — 994 hPa (29.4 inHg) Storm — December 4–5 — — Ice storm — 2003 February 14–19: 44 inches (110 cm) 999 hPa (29.5 inHg) Blizzard: Category 4 December 5–8: 35.6 inches (90 cm) 992 hPa (29.3 inHg) Blizzard Category 3 2004 December 21–24: 39 inches (99 cm) 984 hPa (29.1 inHg) Storm Category 4