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Food in a refrigerator with its door open. ... The first commercial ice-making machine was invented in 1854. [9] In 1913, refrigerators for home use were invented. [10]
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 ).
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.
Frigidaire was founded as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed the first self-contained refrigerator, invented by Nathaniel B. Wales and Alfred Mellowes in 1916. In 1918, William C. Durant, a founder of General Motors, personally invested in the company and in 1919, it adopted the name Frigidaire. [5]
DOMELRE refrigerator advertisement from 1914 DOMELRE refrigerator c. 1914 ISKO advertisement from Good Housekeeping 1917. DOMELRE (an acronym of Domestic Electric Refrigerator) was one of the first domestic electrical refrigerators, invented by Frederick William Wolf Jr. (1879–1954) in 1913 and produced starting in 1914 by Wolf's Mechanical Refrigerator Company in Chicago.
Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as "refrigerators". Only after the invention of the modern electric refrigerator did early non-electric refrigerators become known as iceboxes. [1] The terms ice box and refrigerator were used interchangeably in advertising as long ago as 1848. [2]
In 1850, Ferdinand's brother Edmond Carré (22 January 1833 – 7 May 1894) developed the first absorption refrigerator, using water and sulphuric acid. [2] Ferdinand continued Edmond's work on the process and in 1858 developed a machine which used water as the absorbent and ammonia as refrigerant . [ 3 ]
He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. [18] ... Prefabricated refrigerator construction. U.S. patent 2,581,956 was issued on January 8, ...