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[8] The Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air Conditioning and Heating's most distinguished award is the James Harrison Medal. [8] The James Harrison bridge spanning the Barwon River in Geelong is named in his honour. [8] A plaque located at 100 Franklin St, Melbourne commemorates the Victoria Ice Works founded by James Harrison in 1859. [9]
He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions [1] and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents.Sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator. [2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819. [3] [4]
Standard J-1 providing joyrides. Although produced in large numbers, its four-cylinder Hall-Scott A-7a engine was unreliable and vibrated badly. While JN-4 production outnumbered J-1s by about two to one in June 1918, fatalities in JN-4s versus J-1s numbered about seven to one due to the limited use of the J-1s.
Florence Wilhelmina [1] Parpart Layman (January 1873 [2] - December 3, 1930 [3]), most commonly known by her maiden name of Florence Parpart, was an American inventor known primarily for her patents for an industrial sweeping machine [4] and electrical refrigerator.
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.
Christian Steenstrup (December 2, 1873 – November 28, 1955) was a Danish inventor who invented the hermetically sealed refrigeration unit while Chief Engineer at General Electric, and held over 100 patents.
When 89-year-old retired chemist Dr. Fredric J. Baur gathered his family "Where do Pringles tube inventors go when they die??" "Their ashes are buried in a potato chip can!"
The Einstein–Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd , who patented it in the U.S. on November 11, 1930 ( U.S. patent 1,781,541 ).