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  2. John Gorrie - Wikipedia

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    John B. Gorrie (October 3, 1803 – June 29, 1855) was a Nevisian-born American physician and scientist, credited as the inventor of mechanical refrigeration. [1] [2]Born on the Island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803, he spent his childhood in South Carolina.

  3. Icemaker - Wikipedia

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    Common capacities range from 30 kg (66 lb) to 1,755 kg (3,869 lb). Since the emergence of cube ice machines in the 1970s, they have evolved into a diverse family of ice machines. Cube ice machines are commonly seen as vertical modular devices. The upper part is an evaporator, and the lower part is an ice bin.

  4. James Harrison (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    The machine employed a 5 m (16 ft.) flywheel and produced 3,000 kilograms (6,600 lb) of ice per day. In 1856 Harrison went to London where he patented both his process (747 of 1856) and his apparatus (2362 of 1857). [3] Also in 1856, James Harrison, was commissioned by a brewery to build a machine that could cool beer.

  5. Urschel Laboratories - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] Urschel later invented a machine that provides chocolate coating on ice cream to make an Eskimo Pie. [5] In 1922, Urschel had invented and began selling the bean snipper, which increased the amount of beans canned each year, rising from approximately two million cases of canned beans in 1922 to more than six million cases in 1928. [6]

  6. Ice cutting - Wikipedia

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    Kept insulated, the ice was preserved for cold food storage during warm weather, either on the farm or for delivery to residential and commercial customers with ice boxes. A large ice trade existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries, until mechanical refrigeration displaced it. Due to its harvesting and trade, ice was considered a "crop". [2]

  7. Big Bear Stores - Wikipedia

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    In July 1988, the company started its hyperstore Big Bear Plus concept in Wintersville, Ohio (140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2)), and Bridgeport, Ohio (100,000 sq ft (10,000 m 2)), the stores featured 40 percent food and 60 percent general merchandise. The concept was a combination of its Harts Stores (29 stores in 1991) and the Big Bear Grocery format.

  8. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Sewing machine [210] 2004 Frederick Banting: 1891 Isolated and purified insulin [211] 2004 Harry Coover: 1917 Superglue [212] 2004 Ivan A. Getting: 1912 Global Positioning System (GPS) [213] 2004 James Collip: 1892 Isolated and purified insulin [214] 2004 John A. Roebling: 1806 Suspension bridge [215] 2004 John Heysham Gibbon: 1903 Heart-lung ...

  9. Iceman (occupation) - Wikipedia

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    Iceman in Berlin, 1957. An iceman is someone who sells or delivers ice from a wagon, cart, or motor-truck.. The profession was formerly much more common than it is today. From the late 19th century to mid-20th century, in cities and towns icemen would commonly make daily rounds delivering ice for iceboxes before the electric domestic refrigerator became commonplace.