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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.
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.
Harrison is also remembered as the inventor of the mechanical refrigeration process creating ice and founder of the Victorian Ice Works and as a result, is often called "the father of refrigeration". [2] In 1873 he won a gold medal at the Melbourne Exhibition by proving that meat kept frozen for months remained perfectly edible. [1]
In November, 1928 the MDT purchased the Northern Refrigerator Car Line (founded by Milwaukee's Cudahy brothers) and its 1,800 cars. A holding company, Merchants Despatch, Inc., merged with the MDT in 1936; the new venture was chartered in Delaware on December 18.
[2] [3] The business was unsuccessful initially as the rate of production was low. [3] William C. Durant inspected the production line and advised Murray to buy out the business. [3] In 1918, Durant then bought the business from Murray and renamed the company Frigidaire. [2] [3] Durant then sold the business to his other company, General Motors ...
John B. Gorrie (October 3, 1803 – June 29, 1855) was a Nevisian-born American physician and scientist, credited as the inventor of mechanical refrigeration. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born on the Island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803, he spent his childhood in South Carolina .
His father, John Jones, was a railroad worker who struggled to raise him on his own. [9] [10] Jones was raised by a Catholic priest, Father Ryan, at a rectory in Cincinnati, Ohio, near Covington. [11] [12] Father Ryan took in Jones by age eight, and two years later John Jones died. [2] [7] [13] Jones left school after 6th grade, at age 11. [12]