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Refrigerating Apparatus.
Patent for an economic and durable refrigerating apparatus that cools food by "reducing the temperature of the air in a partially closed chamber by the evaporation of water brought about through the medium of capillary attraction, and likewise to provide for automatically maintaining a predetermined level of water in the water chamber of the apparatus, and a thorough ventilation of the refrigerating chamber thereof" (lines 16-24).
Date:
October 23, 1894
Creator:
Carleton, Ernest William & Odell, James Madison
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The Portal to Texas History