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LG Smart Refrigerator at CES 2011. A smart refrigerator is a refrigerator that is able to communicate with the internet. [1] This kind of refrigerator is often designed to automatically determine when particular food items need to be replenished.
“When your fridge starts dispensing snakes, it’s time to get out of Dodge!” one commenter wrote. “My fridge doesn’t have a snake dispenser. I’m mildly envious,” another said.
An in-door ice caddy, which relocates the ice-maker storage to the freezer door and saves approximately 60 litres (2.1 cu ft) of usable freezer space. It is also removable, and helps to prevent ice-maker clogging. A cooling zone in the refrigerator door shelves. Air from the freezer section is diverted to the refrigerator door, to cool milk or ...
A 3 He/ 4 He dilution refrigerator is a cryogenic device that provides continuous cooling to temperatures as low as 2 mK, with no moving parts in the low-temperature region. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The cooling power is provided by the heat of mixing of the helium-3 and helium-4 isotopes.
Using ice for cooling and preservation was not new at that time; the ice house was an introductory model for the modern icebox. [4] The traditional kitchen icebox dates back to the days of ice harvesting , which was commonly used from the mid-19th century until the introduction of the refrigerator for home use in the 1930s.
The refrigerator is a small unit placed over a campfire, that can later be used to cool 15 litres (3.3 imp gal; 4.0 US gal) of water to just above freezing for 24 hours in a 30 °C (86 °F) environment. [4] The concept was similar to an early refrigeration device known as an Icyball.
1948 ad for Norge refrigerators. The Norge brand of appliances was originally manufactured by the Norge Appliance Company, which was once a division of BorgWarner and later a division of Fedders.
His 1856 patent was for a vapour-compression system using ether, alcohol, or ammonia. He built a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria, and his first commercial ice-making machine followed in 1854. Harrison also introduced commercial vapour-compression refrigeration to ...