This is how refrigerators looked before they became what they are today
Since ancient times, humans have used methods to cool water or to preserve food, most notably the Egyptian method of cooling water by placing it in pottery vessels.
And the Eskimos used snow in their areas to preserve food.
In the nineteenth century, Americans shipped natural ice to warehouses for use in food preservation, until the principles of refrigeration were discovered later by Michael Faraday.
In 1850, the French Edmond Carré designed cooling machines that paved the way for the ice industry, then Ferdinand Carré later developed a cooling machine, and invented a machine that could cool down to minus 35 degrees Celsius.
In 1913, the American Fred Wolf invented the first electrically cooled household refrigerator.
Home refrigerators have evolved over time until they have reached the technology we use now with air cooling without the need for ice.
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