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Early Refrigeration Examples.
Does anyone have pictures of vintage refrigeration equipment they have encountered?
A hundred ten years ago commercial units weighed between 5-250 tons.
The ice makers, meat packaging, RR, and beverage industries where the first to utilize them extensively.
https://en.m.wikip...wiki/Refrigeration

Post your examples here
of vintage commercial ice houses, powered systems, old refrigerated cars, as well home ice boxes and early refrigerators.
Early AC systems as well.
Preferably equipment before WW2 or better WW1.

Add to this any modern era exotic or unique cooling systems such as stirling or pulse tube cyrocoolers.

Fun facts
Albert Einstein jointly help invent a refrigerator with no moving parts. The design is still in use today: https://en.m.wikip...stein_refrigerator



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I'm not sure if it counts or not, but here are the contents of an old Frigidaire from some time between the some year and whenever or whatever. It was in an abandoned cattle barn. 1.






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As best I could determine this A/C system used ammonia, system predated Freon, giant compressors can be seen here http://www.uer.ca/...l.asp?picid=127094 FM only real name used in DB




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As best I could determine this A/C system used ammonia, system predated Freon, giant compressors can be seen here http://www.uer.ca/...l.asp?picid=127094 FM only real name used in DB


That's what I'm talking about!
Yay, raticus!
I have pics a very intact ancient one from the 30's or 40's but it will take some doing to dredge them up.




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Here's a whole building that was dedicated to refrigerating a 13 story cold storage building.


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That's what I'm talking about!
Yay, raticus!
I have pics a very intact ancient one from the 30's or 40's but it will take some doing to dredge them up.



didn't raticus get abducted by aliens or something?




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Here's a whole building that was dedicated to refrigerating a 13 story cold storage building.



Hell yeah Sheavy!!! THAT'S what I'm talking about


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didn't raticus get abducted by aliens or something?


Rumor has it he is time traveling...



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Here's a whole building that was dedicated to refrigerating a 13 story cold storage building.



I can go one better - this factory was the one responsible for designing and producing the worlds first refrigeration systems way back in 1880, which enabled ships to transport perishable goods over the seas without spoiling at long last...



I've seen a few old fridges in and around places but never really focused on them.






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Old fridge, probably gone now due to demolition:




Same fridge months later after someone broke it open:




A refrigeration compressor (with an unfortunate company name), probably also gone now due to the site's demolition:



Don't think I've found anything else old enough to qualify.



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Give abandonment a reason for its sacrificial reclamation to nature. Love it. Remember it. Take a picture. Share it. Leave the decay to nature.

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