With no British companies able to process them, a hill of 15, appliances rises on Chelson Meadow, Plymouth. It's a year before the council sends the fridges for recycling in Germany. An English Electric fridge from makes headlines as the oldest refrigerator in use in the UK. Despite admitting it makes a noise "like a traction engine", its year-old owner Ivy Ashley tells reporters she was happy with the appliance and plans to keep using it.
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? In , he obtained a patent for a vapour compression cycle that used liquified ammonia. Rightly or wrongly, he wound up credited for all the work put in by those who came before him. From there on, many figures had a hand in creating the modern fridge. For example, the first mechanical refrigerator received a patent in and is thanks to a man called Albert T.
Even Albert Einstein himself tried his hand at contributing to the fridge and made a model in which had moving parts and did not rely on electricity. Commercial refrigeration came into popularity at the end of the 19th century due to the rise of breweries. From there, they moved into more and more places. It was common to see a fridge in a situation like a meatpacking factory or any other commercial food production facility.
By the s, the fridge was an essential item in the home of people everywhere. Naturally, this spread to places all around the world and culminated in the appliance we see and work with every day. Today, the demand for refrigeration and air conditioning represent nearly 20 percent of energy consumption worldwide, according to a article in the International Journal of Refrigeration.
The Chinese cut and stored ice around B. Other civilizations, such as the Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, stored snow in pits and covered them with various insulating materials, according to History magazine. In various places in Europe during the 17th century, saltpeter dissolved in water was found to create cooling conditions and was used to create ice.
In the 18th century, Europeans collected ice in the winter, salted it, wrapped it in flannel, and stored it underground where it kept for months. When ice wasn't available or practical, people used cool cellars or placed goods underwater, according to History magazine. Others built their own ice boxes, according to Keep It Cool.
Wooden boxes were lined with tin or zinc and an insulating material such as cork, sawdust, or seaweed and filled with snow or ice. The concept of mechanical refrigeration began when William Cullen, a Scottish doctor, observed that evaporation had a cooling effect in the s. He demonstrated his ideas in by evaporating ethyl ether in a vacuum, according to Peak Mechanical Partnership , a plumbing and heating company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Oliver Evans, an American inventor, designed but did not build a refrigeration machine that used vapor instead of liquid in In , English scientist Michael Faraday used liquefied ammonia to cause cooling.
Jacob Perkins, who worked with Evans, received a patent for a vapor-compression cycle using liquid ammonia in , according to History of Refrigeration. The Refrigeration Research Museum - Who invented the refrigerator?
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