The History of the Refrigerator and Freezers
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Engineering Diversity Mechanical Engineering Mineral and Mining Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology Black and African American Scientists and Engineers |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - Article/Document |
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Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Mary Bellis |
| Description: | Website with a summary of the history of the refrigerator and freezer, with links to related resources. Exerpt: "The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748. However, he did not use his discovery for any practical purpose. In 1805, an American inventor, Oliver Evans, designed the first refrigeration machine. The first practical refrigerating machine was built by Jacob Perkins in 1834; it used ether in a vapor compression cycle. An American physician, John Gorrie, built a refrigerator based on Oliver Evans' design in 1844 to make ice to cool the air for his yellow fever patients. German engineer Carl von Linden, patented not a refrigerator but the process of liquifying gas in 1876 that is part of basic refrigeration technology. T. Elkins patent #455,891Side Note: Improved refrigerator designs were patented by African American inventors, Thomas Elkins (11/4/1879 U.S. patent #221,222) and John Standard (7/14/1891 U.S. patent #455,891)." Caption: Drawing of William Cullen's Design |
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| Keywords: | refrigerator design freezers refrigeration systems African American |
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| Use of Resource: |
History of technology with useful links. |
| Difficulty: |
Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Very low |
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| Publication Date: | October 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrefrigerator.htm |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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