How We Got to Now

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