Refrigeration Quotes



Because of his deep hostility to Austria, Bismarck was sent by the Prussian government to St. Petersburg, Russia, as ambassador. He complained that he was in exile:


Gorrie’s motivation for conditioning the air was to eliminate the Yellow Fever and other disease which seemed to strike every summer. He found that although he could get a patent and demonstrate the ice-making machine the society at the time thought his invention bordered on blasphemy (see {44386}) and like many new technologies could simply not comprehend its utility. It was a commercial failure. See {601961}