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The Ice House
People would gather snow and ice from nearby mountains and store it in these houses. -
The Ice Box
Ice boxes are boxes are boxes that were used to keep food cold by keeping ice in them. The ice would eventually melt, so each box had a drip tray. -
The Electric Refrigerator
This was an ice box like refrigerator, but had a cooling system on top. -
Mechanical Refrigerators
Over 5,000 mechanical refrigerators were manufactured. -
The Refrigerator We Now Know
This introduced a bottom-cooling fridge. -
2010 Update
The standard for refrigerators has been updated thrre times according to recommendations sent to DOE in 2010. -
1987 Update
President Reagan put standards that refrigerators must follow.
