James Harrison (engineer)
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James Harrison was a Scottish Victorian newspaper printer, journalist, politician, and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration.
The James Harrison bridge over the River Barwon
Refrigeration
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Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one. Refrigeration is an artificial, or human-made, cooling method.
Commercial refrigeration
Ice harvesting in Massachusetts, 1852, showing the railroad line in the background, used to transport the ice.
William Cullen, the first to conduct experiments into artificial refrigeration.
Ferdinand Carré's ice-making device