Mary Randolph included a sketch of a refrigerator in
the 1825 2d edition of The Virginia Housewife. It was a
wooden box within another wooden box with crushed charcoal in-between. It was described in 1815, but not the first refrigerator...Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Mary Randolph's 1825 Refrigerator
Mary Randolph included a sketch of a refrigerator in
the 1825 2d edition of The Virginia Housewife. It was a
wooden box within another wooden box with crushed charcoal in-between. It was described in 1815, but not the first refrigerator...Friday, April 13, 2012
Thomas Moore's Refrigerator, 1802 patent
A patent for a refrigerator (ice box) was granted to Thomas Moore and signed by President Thomas Jefferson. In 1802 Jefferson went to the Moore home in Montgomery County, Md to see the new Refrigeratory, and later bought one.