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Servel Wunderbar: 1953

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering
Design
Industrial Design
Mechanical Engineering
Special Topic(s): History of Technology
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): IDSA - Industrial Design Society of America
Description: Invention and design of the gas absorption refrigerator of Servel, Inc. "Servel, Inc., the sole manufacturer of gas absorption refrigerators since 1926, introduced the Wonderbar, a compact portable refrigerator designed by industrial designer and Servel VP of Product Planning, Donald Dailey. The Wonderbar, made almost completely of Bakelite plastic, was designed to get refrigerators into rooms other than the kitchen. Servel also later introduced the first automatic ice-maker in its full-sized refrigerator, also styled by Dailey and his staff."
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Keywords: refrigerator design, industrial design
Is Component of Industrial Design Society of America - IDSA
   
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Related ABET Criteria: (c) Design a system, component, or process
Use of Resource: IDSA's series on 100 Years of Design consists of excerpts from a book by Carroll M. Gantz, FIDSA, entitled, DESIGN CHRONICLES: Significant Mass-produced Products of the 20th Century to be published Fall 2005 by Schiffer Publications, Ltd.
Difficulty: Easy
Interactivity Level: Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: November 2007
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=278
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS