--- title: "Who invented the Refrigerator?" description: "Who invented the Refrigerator?" author: "Rivera fuller" published: 2018-08-28 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48960/who-invented-the-refrigerator category: "innovation, discovery and technology" tags: ["innovation, discovery and technology"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Who invented the Refrigerator? Who invented the Refrigerator?\ \ \ ## Answers ### Answer by Harshal Vispute A **[refrigerator](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49246/what-year-was-refrigerator-invented-and-how)** is a business and residential equipment that consists of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump that transfers heat from the refrigerator's interior to the outside environment, allowing the inside to be cooled to a temperature below ambient temperature. \ The **[refrigerator](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49246/what-year-was-refrigerator-invented-and-how)** should be kept at or below **40 degrees Fahrenheit**, while the freezer should be kept at **0 degrees Fahrenheit**. **[Refrigeration](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49246/what-year-was-refrigerator-invented-and-how)** is a widely utilised food preservation technique around the world. Because germs reproduce at a slower pace at lower temperatures, the refrigerator lessens the rate of deterioration. \ A **[refrigerator](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49246/what-year-was-refrigerator-invented-and-how)** is kept at a temperature that is a few degrees above the freezing point of water. The ideal temperature range for storing perishable foods is **3 to 5 °C**. A freezer is a similar device that keeps the temperature below the **freezing point** of water. The icebox, which had been a typical domestic appliance for nearly a century and a half, was superseded by the refrigerator. \ **Ancient Iranians** were first to invent a type of large evaporative cooler known as **yachts**, which used subterranean storage spaces and a large domed above-ground structure with thick walls and wind catchers, which was walled off further into a series of '**qanats**,' or a type of aqueduct used in **Ancient Iran**. \ In **1755**, **Scottish scientist William Cullen** built a modest refrigerating machine, which began the history of artificial refrigeration. \ **Oliver Evans**, an **American inventor**, devised a closed **vapour**-**compression** refrigeration cycle for producing ice from ether under vacuum in **1805**. **Michael Faraday**, a **British scientist**, liquefied **ammonia** and other gases using **high pressures** and **low temperatures** in **1820**, and **Jacob Perkins**, an **American expatriate** in **Great Britain**, created the **first operational vapour**-**compression** refrigeration system in **1834**. \ A similar attempt was **undertaken** in **1842** by **John Gorrie**, an **American physician** who created a working prototype but failed commercially. **Alexander Twining**, an **American engineer**, got a **British patent** for an **ether**-**based vapour compression machine** in **1850**. \ **James Harrison**, a **Scottish Australian**, invented the first workable vapour compression refrigeration device. His invention for a vapour compression system using ether, **alcohol**, or **ammonia** was issued in **1856**. \ \ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48960/who-invented-the-refrigerator Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.