Blog Post. The History of our humble Refrigerator 01 Feb Heath Goodwin. The humble fridge, a necessity in every home, but not many people know the history of this beloved household item and its significance on our lifestyle.
Sno-man refrigerators were launched in The first commercially available, Australian-made domestic refrigerator to operate without ice was produced by E dward Hallstrom in It used kerosene as a power source and was promoted as ideal for outback stations where ice was not available. The first domestic electric refrigerator was sold in America in It had an air-cooled refrigeration unit mounted on top of an icebox.
The Frigidaire and Kelvinator brands date from when the first self-contained fridges were sold. In Australia, Edward Hallstrom later Sir Edward produced his first kerosene-powered refrigerator in his Sydney backyard. Boiling ether absorbed the heat from the surrounding air. Next step in when American inventor Oliver Evans invented a closed vapor-compression refrigeration cycle again based on ether which had its boiling point lowered by vacuum.
This ideas and prototypes were not practical until Jacob Perkins built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system in the world in His system had closed cycle and could operate without waste.
Although practical, it did not succeed commercially. American physician John Gorrie built a working prototype in and planned to use it for cooling the air in the tropical homes, but this one was also a commercial failure.
James Harrison, a British journalist who had immigrated to Australia, built a mechanical ice-making machine in and made the first commercial ice-making machine in He patented it in Got a news tip?
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