The history of the refrigerator

Sandvik Group ^ | circa 2017 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

And making ice as needed was invented by someone in Spain, who introduced the Unodos Trays.

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4068919/posts?page=24#24

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.wired.com/story/einsteins-little-known-passion-project-a-refrigerator/

[jmacusa]

Yup. The guy would have the sharpening stone. Believe or not it looked kind of like a spinning wheel and he would carry on his back!

[Pennsyltucky Boy]

My Grandmother had a Huckster who brought fresh produce to her neighborhood, as well as a butcher and a fellow with canned goods who both had a truck route… and of course a milkman. She also used a gas refrigerator until the mid 70’s. It had a ridiculously small freezer, big enough for two ice cube trays and maybe 3 small blocks of frozen veggies.

[jmacusa]

Wow. Isn’t that a bygone era.

We had a milk man come around. We had our milk box on the porch and he would put those milk bottles in.

It was nice on a winter morning with the cream on the top of the bottle. Mmmmm, good!

Boy, those were that days.

[21twelve]

My old man used to tell of how he would get in trouble for being the first one up and go out and sip the cream out of the tops of the milk bottles. I’m guessing that before you would drink it you were supposed to shake up the bottle first? (Hmm - perhaps that is why they call it “skim” milk - they skim off the cream on top!!??)

[jmacusa]

lol! Yeah, probably.