What a Cool Idea, Dr. Gorrie!
"1850: Florida physician John Gorrie uses his mechanical ice-maker to astonish the guests at a party. It's America's first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration."
A Florida physician certainly ~ but born in Nevis!
Click on the title to read the interesting if chilling story for this hot July day, from WIRED magazine...
Labels: Caribbean, Dr. John Gorrie, history of refrigeration, inventors, medical history, Nevis, physicians
posted by Ann Celestine @ 8:51 AM
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