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Parpart is credited as Florence P. Layman on the other patent which lists her as inventor, a 1914 patent for an electrical refrigerator, [24] as well as two other patents filed by her husband for which she was listed as assignee. [25] [26] Patent filings show that the Laymans moved several times between 1900 and 1919.
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.
A Crosley IcyBall with cold side ball on left, hot side ball on right. Icyball is a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto (filed 1927, granted 1929), [1] [2] and manufactured by American Powel Crosley Jr., who bought the rights to the device.
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]
In 1879 and 1891, two African American inventors patented improved refrigerator designs in the United States (Thomas Elkins – U.S. patent #221222 and respectively John Standard – U.S. patent #455891). In 1902, the Teague family of Montgomery purchased control of the firm. Their last advertisement in Ice and Refrigeration appeared in March ...
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916) – writer and inventor (portable folding mosquito net frame) Charles Dow (1851–1902), U.S. – Dow Jones Industrial Average Mulalo Doyoyo (1970–2024), South Africa/U.S. – Cenocell – cementless concrete
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This prototype cooling device invented by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters in 1922 became the basis for a lot of refrigerators produced in Sweden and elsewhere. Baltzar von Platen (24 February 1898 – 29 April 1984) was a Swedish engineer and inventor.