Excerpt from Refrigeration: Including Household Automatic Refrigerating Machines

There is an increasing demand for mechanical refrigerating devices which are suitably applicable and safe for producing refrigeration on a small scale in private houses, single apartments, small hotels, restaurants, and stores.

The sphere of usefulness of refrigeration by mechanical means is constantly expanding, and the number of refrigerating machines manufactured is every year larger than in the preceding one. Doubtless, in the near future, practically every house in suburban and urban districts either will be supplied with artificial ice manufactured in large refrigerating plants or will depend for food preservation on refrigerating equipment which is all but completely self-servicing.

Modern refrigeration, which includes practical methods of ice making in a refrigerating plant and of direct cooling without ice, is a comparatively recent development. In the last three quarters of a century, this industry has expanded to such an extent and our dependence on it has become so complete that our present-day system of freight transportation and of ocean commerce in perishable foods could not exist without it. The feeding of cities, even the avoidance of famine, depends on the facilities for shipping over long distance and for storing in good condition the products of one season for consumption at other times of the year.

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