Icebox

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An refrigerator (also called cold cupboard ) is a compact, non-mechanical refrigerator that was a common kitchen tool early in the twentieth century before the development of a safe, powered cooling device.

Video Icebox

Design

Icebox has a hollow wall lined with tin or zinc and packed with various insulating materials such as cork, sawdust, straw or seaweed. A large ice block is held in a tray or compartment near the top of the box. Cold air circulates down and around the storage compartment at the bottom. Some finer models have a spigot to drain ice water from a pot or container tank. In the cheaper models, the drop pan is placed under the box and should be emptied at least daily. Users should fill the melting ice, usually by getting new ice from iceman.

Icebox is usually made of wood; lots of handsome furniture.

Maps Icebox

Use

Icebox dates back to the days of the ice harvest, which had reached a high industry that lasted from the mid-19th century until the 1930s, when the fridge was introduced to the house. The ice consumed by most of the city's population is harvested in the winter of an area filled with snow or frozen lakes, stored in ice houses, and shipped domestically when ice becomes more common. In the 1907 survey of New York City residents' spending, 81% of the surveyed families were found to have "refrigerators" either in ice stored in tubs or ice boxes. The widespread use of iceboxes is partly credited with reducing the death of US infants in the summer.

With metropolitan growth, many natural ice sources are contaminated from industrial pollution or waste disposal. When the initial mechanical refrigerator was available, they were installed as large industrial plants producing ice for home delivery. Able to produce clean and clean ice throughout the year, their products are gradually replacing the ice harvested from the pond.

As widespread electrification and cooling are safer, mechanical cooling at home becomes possible. With the development of chlorofluorocarbons (along with successful hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons), which come to replace the use of toxic ammonia gas, refrigerators are replaced by refrigerators, although refrigerators are still sometimes used to refer to refrigerator mechanics.

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See also

• Cooling trips
• Coolgardie is safe
• Meat is safe
• Pot-in-pot refrigerator

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References

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Further reading

• Rees, Jonathan (2013). Refrigeration Nation: History of Ice, Tools, and Companies in America . Baltimore, MD :. Johns Hopkins University Press

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External links

• "What's an Ice Box?" Historical Highlights from DeForest Area Historical Society, DeForest, Wisconsin

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