Domestic electric refrigerator
Refrigerador eléctrico doméstico
- Date
- 1913–1927 · confidence high
- Place
- Schenectady, New York, United States
- Credited to
- General Electric (Monitor Top, 1927); Fred Wolf (DOMELRE, Chicago, 1913); Kelvinator (1918); Frigidaire; Thomas Midgley (Freon, 1930)
- People
- 👤 Fred Wolf1932–👤 Thomas Midgley1889–1944
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Refrigerator with a sealed compressor built in and affordable for the home; Freon (1930) eliminated toxic gases. It replaced the icebox.
What it led to
- Weekly shopping and the supermarket
- Frozen food and the cold chain
- Ozone hole from CFCs (discovered 1985)