The early ice making systems in the nineteenth century

Introduction of artificial refrigeration became one of the most remarked technological events in the nineteenth century. The development of different systems for making ice was the result of separated efforts of combined applications of several chemical and physical principles in order to satisfy an increasing domestic and industrial demand. This account of the first ice making machines reveals details of the high sense of creativity showed by their designers and the yields individually reached.

► Early ice making systems were based on different chemical or physical principles. ► Some particular early ice making systems made use of different refrigerant agents. ► No one of early particular proposed systems showed definitive advantages over others.