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  2. Jacob Perkins - Wikipedia

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    Perkins is credited with the first patent for the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle, assigned on August 14, 1834 [11] and titled, "Apparatus and means for producing ice, and in cooling fluids". The idea had come from another American inventor, Oliver Evans , who conceived of the idea in 1805 but never built a refrigerator.

  3. Low-temperature technology timeline - Wikipedia

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    1834 – Ideal gas law by Émile Clapeyron; 1834 – Émile Clapeyron characterizes phase transitions between two phases in form of Clausius–Clapeyron relation. 1834 – Jacob Perkins obtained the first patent for a vapor-compression refrigeration system. 1834 – Jean-Charles Peltier discovers the Peltier effect

  4. Refrigerator - Wikipedia

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    In 1820, the British scientist Michael Faraday liquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperatures, and in 1834, an American expatriate in Great Britain, Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system.

  5. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    In 1834, Jacob Perkins modified Evans' original design, building the world's first refrigerator and filing the first legal patent for refrigeration using vapor-compression. [48] John Gorrie , an American doctor from Florida , invented the first mechanical refrigeration unit in 1841, based on Evans' original invention to make ice in order to ...

  6. Icemaker - Wikipedia

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    In 1834, Jacob Perkins built the first practical refrigerating machine using ether in a vapor compression cycle. The American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist received 21 American and 19 English patents (for innovations in steam engines, the printing industry and gun manufacturing among others) and is considered today the father of ...

  7. Refrigeration - Wikipedia

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    In 1820, the English scientist Michael Faraday liquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperatures, and in 1834, an American expatriate to Great Britain, Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system in the world. It was a closed-cycle that could operate continuously, as he described in ...

  8. Vapor-compression refrigeration - Wikipedia

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    In 1834, an American expatriate to Great Britain, Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system in the world. [14] It was a closed-cycle that could operate continuously, as he described in his patent:

  9. 1834 in science - Wikipedia

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    The year 1834 in science and technology involved some significant events, ... Jacob Perkins creates a cooling machine that uses ice, an early refrigerator. [16] Awards