The refrigerator is something that us can use commonly but... what is the origin of this important machine?
Surely you have a refrigerator and use this for keep your food in good condition. Is something very common in our lifes but ... can you imagine the first refrigerator or maybe in what year it was built? Let's talk about it! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
Slide 3
The first
data about, how to save ice is from
China in the century XI B.C. Marco
Polo told us, how chinese people did ice cream after that, the indians, greeks and
romans adopted this custom.
Alejandro
Magno said: "crash the ice from the mountains and carry up by relay, when you had arrived put it in caves”
Greeks
carried up ice from Mount Olympus to
refresh their wines.
In America people did pots where
they put the meals, and they dug a hole
in the ground near their home and cover these pots
Before mechanical refrigeration systems were introduced, people cooled their food with ice and snow, either found locally or brought down from the mountains. The first cellars were holes dug into the ground and lined with wood or straw and packed with snow and ice
In Spain the first container to
save ice was a Wooden box. This ice was carried up by horses from
faraway places.
In 1871, Kart Von Linde, got an advance
about frozen tecnics, he did a machine, it used
ether and ammonia for refrigerating.
This invention was sold by Kelvinator,
this box had a compressor that froze the water with ammonia.
Slide 7
The first refrigerators were bulky and uncomfortable even with used the toxic gases ammonia (NH3), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) as refrigerants. Several fatal accidents occurred in the 1920s when methyl chloride leaked out of refrigerators.
The next map show us differents inventors and their contributions through time
Slide 9
Today, the refrigerator is the most used appliance in the world and is present in almost every household in developed countries. It is definitely one of those "miracles" of modernity that can totally change your life.
How does the actual refrigerator
work?The refrigerator has refrigerant,
which is a gas.
This gas is liquid,
when this liquid evaporates,
absorbes hot into the refrigerator.
This chemical ebulles
to environmental temperature
When the refrigerant is steam, the compressor sends it into the refrigerator
, and the steam absorbes hot, after that this gas returns to the compressor,
it gets free hot in the kitchen
The refrigerant is liquid again, and the cycle stars
over again.
The cold is absence of hot