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The household electric refrigerator was one the 20th century’sgreatest inventions, allowing housewives to “cast off the shackles of ice.” With an electric refrigerator, they didn’t buy ice—they made it. They had new freedom to store a wider varietyof foods longer. Frozen foods before the electric refrigeration?Forget it. How could you keep frozen foods in an icebox? Theelectric refrigerator made our lives safer and richer.

Citation: ASHRAE Journal, Vol. 46, No. 11