Have you ever heard a refrigerator referred to as a “Coolerator?” I always thought that one was funny. But, they actually did make iceboxes before branching out into refrigerators, then air conditioners and dehumidifiers.
Oh yes, I’m familiar. My parents spent a good part of their growing up years without electricity, running water, indoor plumbing. Until the TVA & REA, they used oil lamps, fireplaces, wood stoves, pumps/well water, ice boxes, and outhouses. Even after, it was years before my great aunt & uncle had a pump handle at the kitchen sink, and 1947 before they had indoor plumbing (created a septic tank from a cistern and built a bathhouse on top of it). I’m looking at one of the oil lamps my mother used as I type.