Black Fact= 1879 (November 4) – Thomas Elkins patented a Refrigerating Apparatus on this date in 1879. Patent # 221,222. He successfully filed a series of patents during the 1870s. On February 22, 1870, he held a patent of a table that could serve for dining, ironing and as a quilting frame, gained approval. Shortly thereafter, on January 9, 1872, he also patented the design for an improved “chamber-commode.”
His patent for an apparatus to improve refrigeration of “articles liable for decay” was his biggest and most well-known invention. The patent was approved on Nov. 4, 1878, and included a covered trough or container kept at low temperature by the continuous circulation of chilled water or other cooling fluid through a series of metallic coils. Trying to keep bodies of those who had recently died cool posed major challenge in the 19th century. His invention was a marked improvement over other longstanding
techniques. He died in 1900. #theraydiotwins
