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John Gorrie makes ice to break a fever
Apalachicola, Florida
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A doctor in a yellow fever port hung basins of ice over his patients to cool the wards, then ran out of ice, it came down by ship from New England. So he built a machine that compressed air, let it expand, and froze water on its own. He was mocked in the northern press, died broke, and holds the first American patent for mechanical refrigeration. Every cold room since is downstream of that ward.
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