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DURING the greater part of the nineteenth century, there was a considerable trade in natural ice, and ice cut from Wenham Lake, near Boston, in the United States, was known in many parts of the world. Some of this ice came to Great Britain, which also obtained supplies from Greenland and Norway. It was this trade which led the famous engineer, Richard Trevithick, in 1828 to suggest to his friend, Davies Gilbert, that ice could be made by the compression and expansion of air.
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SMITH, E. PIONEERS OF REFRIGERATION*. Nature 151, 412–413 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151412a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151412a0