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  2. Refrigerator - Wikipedia

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    A freezer is a specialized refrigerator, ... The first commercial ice-making machine was invented in 1854. [9] In 1913, refrigerators for home use were invented. [10]

  3. Low-temperature technology timeline - Wikipedia

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    1730 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur invented an alcohol thermometer and temperature scale ultimately proved to be less reliable than Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer. 1742 – Anders Celsius proposed a scale with zero at the boiling point and 100 degrees at the freezing point of water. It was later changed to be the other way around ...

  4. Nancy M. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Ice cream was originally made using very intensive labor and it often took one individual hours to make. Johnson had invented the hand cranked ice cream churn as a way to make ice cream faster and easier than by hand. [4] The patent number for the Artificial Freezer is US3254A. [5] It was patented on September 9, 1843, and antedated on July 29 ...

  5. Frigidaire - Wikipedia

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    Frigidaire was founded as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed the first self-contained refrigerator, invented by Nathaniel B. Wales and Alfred Mellowes in 1916.

  6. Refrigeration - Wikipedia

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    Refrigeration has many applications, including household refrigerators, industrial freezers, cryogenics, and air conditioning. [5] [6] [7] Heat pumps may use the heat output of the refrigeration process, and also may be designed to be reversible, but are otherwise similar to air conditioning units. [5]

  7. James Harrison (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    James Harrison (17 April 1816 – 3 September 1893) was a Scottish Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician, and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration.

  8. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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    He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. [18] This attracted the attention of local entrepreneur Joseph A. Numero of Minneapolis, Minnesota . Numero owned a company that manufactured audio equipment called Ultraphone Sound Systems Inc. and was later renamed Cinema Supplies Inc. [ 18 ] He hired Jones in 1927 as an ...

  9. Einstein refrigerator - Wikipedia

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    Einstein's and Szilárd's patent application Annotated patent drawing. The Einstein–Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate.