In the 1930’s meat and produce was moved from farm to market by trailer and cooled by ice. The trip and the cargo space was limited by the amount of ice and the cooling it could provide. Transport posed many challenges that stationary units could not withstand. In particular, [...]
In 1928, John B. Rathbun was the chief Engineer of Utilities Engineering Institute, 3120 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois. As an aid to technicians servicing refrigeration equipment in the budding refrigeration industry, the Institute developed a home study training course. As part of that course, Rathbun listed 15 necessary [...]
How far would you go to complete a sale? Well, in the case of Alan Richards, to the top of one of the tallest buildings in Buffalo and then another 40 feet to reach Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly perched on top of a flagpole in the Summer of 1927. Kelly had [...]
“But an accumulator is not a magic cure-all for every system refrigerant problem. On a field installed system, the selection procedure at best is a somewhat haphazard process which may not always achieve its desired effects.” So stated John Grim of Copeland. Grim John made this statement in 1975 [...]
Was this the man who invented fast food? Louis A.M. Phelan perhaps deserves this distinction or blame for beginning the era of the fast food industry through his invention of the broaster process and by franchising the Zesto Drive-Inns which utilized the Zesto Freeze machines also invented by him. [...]
