Refrigerator History

The first method of refrigeration used was to pack the desired item to be kept cold, in snow, ice, cool streams, springs, caves and cellars. Thousands of years ago, cellars were holes dug into the ground and lined with wood or straw and packed with snow and ice. Meat and fish were preserved by salting or smoking. In 1,000 BC the Chinese cut and stores ice, and around 500 BC the Egyptians and Indians made ice on cold nights by setting water out in earthenware pots and keeping the pots wet.
In 18th century England, servants collected ice in the winter and put it into icehouses, where sheets if ice were packed in salt, wrapped in strips of flannel and stored underground to keep them frozen until summer. But then when the 19th century his, England started using ice boxes.
The first known artificial refrigeration system was de...