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Freezer Service and Repair
Freezers and and freezing has been around en masse since the 1830's when iceboxes and ice-storehouses became widely available. There was so much demand for freezing via the harvesting of ice, that ice-cutting because a major market commodity; consumption in New York along increased from 12,000 tons in 1843 to over 100,000 tons in 1856. Ice harvesting created a cultural understanding that storing meat, fish, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables a cold temperatures helped preserve their freshness, and paved the way for the mass acceptance and adoption of freezers and refrigerators.
Scottish professor William Cullen began experimenting with refrigeration in the mid-18th century, and created a small refrigerating machine in 1755. Unfortunately his design had no practical application at the time. In 1758, Benjamin Franklin, working with John Hadley, a professor of chemistry, collaborated on an experiment to show that rapid cooling of an object was possible through the evaporation of volatile liquid such as alcohol and ether. The experiment cooled the bulb of a mercury thermometer down to 7 degrees F, and noted that a layer of ice began forming on the bulb when the temperature passed 32 degrees F. At the conclusion of the experiments, Franklin wrote, "From this experiment, one may see the possibility of freezing a man to death on a warm summer's day".
In 1820, Michael Faraday liquified ammonia and other gases by using high pressure and low temperatures. In 1834, Jacob Perkins, and American ex-pat working in Great Britain, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system in the world. It was a closed-cycle system that could operate continuously as described in his patent. In 1842, John Gorrie, an American physician, built a similar working prototype, and American engineer Alexander Twining applied for a British patent in 1850. All the systems worked, but were commercial failures.
In 1859, Ferdinand Carré fo France developed the first commercial viable ice making machine, and patented his designs in 1860. Carré's ice machine solved the issue of having access to ice in places where ice harvesting was impossible, such as New Orleans. Commercial adoption of freezer and refrigeration systems soon followed, and by 1900 was used on shipping vessels, in the meat packing industry, and by breweries, among other industries.
Although a culture of freezing food in residential settings with iceboxes had become the norm, the technology did not progress. Moreover, consumers that used iceboxes in 1910, had the same problems with their iceboxes that affected consumers in 1800. General Electric was among the first companies to produce a residential refrigeration unit that was powered by gas in 1911. Shortly thereafter in 1927, GE developed an electric refrigerator, the Monitor Top which was one of the first to see widespread use. Frigidaire, one of GE's main competitors, synthesized freon in the 1920, which led to a large expansion of the refrigerator market in the 1930's.
Freezer compartments able to hold more than just ice cubes were added in the 1940's and standalone freezers, then known as "Deep Freeze", did not go into mass-production for home use until after World War 2. The standalone freezer market continued to expand and add features such as automatic defrosting in line with the feature development of refrigerators, and their evolution has continued to this day.
Today, freezers are available as standalone units, column, vertical or chest freezer which are often used as additional freezer space in many homes. Unlike most modern appliances, freezers, for the most part, never achieved the same level of technology mainly due to the fact that many are not used as a primary kitchen appliance, although today's freezers are frost free, automatically defrosting, and far more efficient than their predecessors. As such, freezers require little freezer maintenance, although they are still effected by similar issues to those of their refrigerator cousins, and require the same freezer repair and freezer service.
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