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A scottish scientist by the name of William Cullen invented the first form of an artificial refrigerator. He showed that rapidly heating of a liquid to a gas can cause cooling. It is a process in all refrigerators today. Cullen never turned his theory into a practice but many were inspired by this.
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An american inventor named Jacob Perkins that was living in landon. He built the world's first water vapor compression refrigeration system that using an closed cycle. The system worked but it didn't succeed commercially.
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In 1913 an inventor Alfred W. Wolf as known as Domelre created the Domestic Electric Refrigerator which was named abit after his nickname Domelre. However his model was a flop though his innovention; an ice cube tray was used by his competitors as they saw it's potential.
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In 1819 two companies; Frigidaire & Kelvinator. The Frigidaire Company mass produced refrigerator that were based off of Alfred Mellowes' invention. It was a self contained refrigerator with a compressor art the bottom of the cabinet. While the Kelvinator Company had introduced the first refrigerator of any type of automatic control
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In 1927 general electric refrigerator named Monditer Top became the first refrigerator to have wide spread use, over a million units were produced for purchase. It's compressor assembly emitted a lot of heat was placed above the cabinet. These refrigerators used sulfur dioxide or methyl formate as a regenerate which was later linked to death.
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After the second World War, in 1945 refrigerators were being fully mass produced. The 1940s brought the bottom cooling refrigerator we have today. It added extra food storage to the american home and set a new standard of food safety.
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In the recent years people have started to add the internet & technology to home appliance to make life a little easier. LG lunched the first connected refrigerator and then samsung released models with a camera & wifi that kept track of when food would spoil.
