Essays Tagged: "John Gorrie"

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cycle to be able to cool things (History of the Refrigerator). In 1844, an American physician named John Gorrie used Perkins' model to build a refrigerator to make ice cool the air for his yellow feve ... models of refrigerators. There names were Thomas Elkins, who patented his refrigerator in 1879, and John Standard, who patented his refrigerator in 1891. Something odd about Elkins' design was that he ...

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Subjects: Businesss Research Papers