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Thermo King is an American manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for refrigerator trucks and trailers, refrigerated containers and refrigerated railway cars along with heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for bus and passenger rail applications.
Frederick McKinley Jones invented mobile refrigeration in Minneapolis, and with his associate founded Thermo King in 1938. [132] In 1949, Medtronic was founded in a Minneapolis garage. [ 133 ] Minneapolis-Honeywell built a south Minneapolis campus where their experience regulating control systems earned them military contracts for the Norden ...
In 1996, the Thermo King Model 'C' refrigeration unit, the world's first front-mount refrigeration unit for mobile trucks, was designated an International Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Jones designed and built the prototype from junkyard salvage.
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In 1912 the company was renamed The Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company.. In 1913, W.R. Sweatt named his 22-year-old son, Harold, vice-president of his heat regulator company.
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Albert Butz (1849–1905) was a Swiss-born American inventor and businessman who founded the Butz Thermo-electric Regulator Company that, through a series of re-organizations, name changes, and mergers, became Honeywell, Incorporated.
US 12 leads east 17 miles (27 km) to Cokato and west 30 miles (48 km) to Willmar; MN 22 leads north 24 miles (39 km) to Richmond and south-southeast 21 miles (34 km) to Hutchinson, and MN 24 leads north 22 miles (35 km) to Kimball. Minneapolis is 66 miles (106 km) to the east via US 12.