1803 – 1855
John Gorrie
United StatesMechanicalMedicine & Public Health
Background
An American physician in Florida seeking to cool the rooms of fever patients.
Contribution
Built and patented (1851) a machine that made ice using compressed and expanded air — a pioneering mechanical refrigeration device.
Associated inventions
Collaborators & contemporaries
Sources & further reading
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- Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia
- Smithsonian — National Museum of American HistorySmithsonian Institution · Museum
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