Thomas Elkins Invents Improved Refrigerator Design
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Design Engineering Diversity Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mechanical Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
Black and African American Scientists and Engineers History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Mary Bellis |
| Description: | An improved refrigerator design was patented by African American inventor Thomas Elkins of Albany, New York (11/4/1879 U.S. patent #221,222). One unusual fact about Thomas Elkins' refrigerator was that it was also designed to chill human corpses. |
| Rating: | No Rating |
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| Keywords: | Thomas Elkins refrigeration African American inventor Black inventor |
| Referenced By: |
The History of the Refrigerator and Freezers |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | October 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blelkinpatents.htm |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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