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John B. Gorrie (October 3, 1803 – June 29, 1855) was a Nevisian-born American physician and scientist, credited as the inventor of mechanical refrigeration. His wife Born on the Island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803, he spent his childhood in South Carolina.
John Gorrie (born Oct. 3, 1803, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died June 16, 1855, Apalachicola, Fla.) was an American physician who discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration as the result of experiments to lower the temperature of fever patients by cooling hospital rooms.
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John Gorrie (1803-1855) was granted the first U.S.patent for mechanical refrigeration. As a physician in Florida during the outbreak of the malaria epidemic, Gorrie set about on his mission to create artificial cooling as a matter of medical urgency to cure his patients of a disease he believed was caused by extreme heat and humidity.
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Jul 31, 2017 · A name not easily recalled yet recognized as one of the major scientists and inventors of the early 19th century, Dr. John Gorrie, developed artificial ice in Florida. One doesn’t associate ‘ice’ and Florida in the same breath, but that is the case with Dr. John Gorrie in the first half of the 1800s. He is credited with developing the ...
Sep 1, 2016 · The search saw many thousands of tons of ice shipped around the world, created a millionaire Ice King, and—if 19th-century doctor and ice-machine inventor John Gorrie had gotten his way—could...
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Dr. John Gorrie (1803 - 1855), an early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice, refrigeration, and air conditioning, was granted the first U.S. Patent for mechanical refrigeration in 1851. Gorrie's basic principle is the one most often used in refrigeration today; namely, cooling caused by the rapid expansion of gases.
John Gorrie, M.D. Inventor, Humanitarian, Physician. 1803 – 1855. 1 Patent. Dr. Gorrie invented the ice-making machine and is considered the father of air conditioning and refrigeration. Gorrie’s invention began with an attempt to cure Yellow Fever during an outbreak in Apalachicola in 1841.
