When was the freezer created

Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. Prev NEXT. Kitchen Appliances. Cite This! Print Citation. Try Our Sudoku Puzzles! The higher this value the better, because it means that less work is being done to cool down the refrigerator. Fossil Fuels. Nuclear Fuels. Acid Rain. Climate Change. Climate Feedback. Ocean Acidification. Wolf of Fort Wayne, Indiana invented a unit that was mounted on top of an ice box. Nathaniel B. Wales of Detroit, Michigan invented in electric refrigeration unit.

Alfred Mellowes made his in but was bought out by William C. Durant in who later started the Frigidaire Company. In appeared refrigerator by Kelvinator Company that had automatic control. Most of these refrigerator units had mechanical parts, motor and compressor, placed in the basement or an adjacent room while the cold box was located in the kitchen. In appeared General Electric "Monitor-Top" and became the first widely popular refrigerator.

Tim Buszka, a senior associate product marketing manager with the Whirlpool Corporation, says the icebox became more commonplace for middle and upper-class families in the s. The earliest models of the refrigerator really just had one feature to them- a chunk of ice. According to archival records from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History , the icebox was an insulated cabinet with a compartment containing ice that kept perishable foods cool.

Fresh ice would have to be inserted into the fridge every week or so. When the first home refrigerator was introduced in the early s, Buszka says it was a luxury for even the wealthiest Americans. It wasn't until early s that companies like Whirlpool introduced the earliest forms of the single-unit refrigerator featuring a brand new technology-evaporative cooling. It was a self-contained unit, and "wasn't cheap at the time, but didn't require the same amount of installation and maintenance of earlier models," Buszka explained.

According to Pacific Standard magazine , only eight percent of American residences had a refrigerator in the early s-but by the early s, almost 45 percent of American homes had ditched ice boxes and installed a refrigerator.