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How We Got to Now
Chapter 2: Cold
Created by
Sarah Foster
⟶ Updated 28 Nov 2017 ⟶
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Tudor's brother and cousin transport ice to tropical climates while Tudor set sail on his brig, favorite, towards West Indies.
Tudor was thrown in debtor's prison
Tudor had a full Icehouse's in South America
Tudor's ships were sailing all the way to Rio de Janeiro and Bombay
Gorrie created a refridgeration machine
Other people started to copy Tudor's idea resulting in over a hundred thousand tons of boston ice being shipped out each year
2/3 of New York homes had a daily delievery of ice
Civil War broke out and ports were blocked making it difficult for ice to be shipped in
Hutchinson built a new packing plant that featured cooling rooms to store pork
Southern States made more artificial ice than anywhere in the world
Ice became less avaliable due to a cold winter and the whole country suffered
Birdseye developed the flash-freezing process
Carrier tested his AC system in Paramount Pictures' new Manhattan movie thearter in Rivoli
Carrier demonstrated what it would be like when air conditioning was in homes
Air conditioning was in homes
Ameicans life was profoundly shaped by artificial cold
People began migrating south at an extremely fast rate due to air conditioning making it tolerable