Florida Air Conditioning Inventor

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John gorrie builds an ice making machine that uses compression to make buckets of ice and then blows air over them. Gorrie invented the ice making machine and is considered the father of air conditioning and refrigeration. He was also a physician scientist inventor and humanitarian. Scroll through our interactive timeline above and read on to learn about some of the key milestones in air conditioning history.

Gorrie s invention began with an attempt to cure yellow fever during an outbreak in apalachicola in 1841. He made the ice maker and led the way to that remarkable creation called air conditioning. He patents the idea in 1851. Modern air conditioning is born.

In the 1840s physician and inventor dr. What did gorrie do. John gorrie of florida proposed the idea of cooling cities to relieve residents of the evils of high temperatures. At the florida hospital where he works dr.

Impoverished gorrie sought to raise money to manufacture his machine but the venture failed when his partner died. Convinced that cold was a healer he advocated the use of ice to cool sickrooms and reduce fever. John gorrie is considered the father of air conditioning and refrigeration. In the 1800s in the charming town of apalachicola florida a man named john gorrie invented the very first air conditioning machine.

In 1835 patents for apparatus and means for producing ice and in cooling fluids had been granted in england and scotland to american born inventor jacob perkins who became known as the father of the refrigerator. In 1820 english scientist and inventor michael faraday discovered that compressing and liquefying ammonia could chill air when the liquefied ammonia was allowed to evaporate. The evils of high temperatures. Gorrie represents florida with his statue placed in the national statuary hall in washington d.

John gorrie suspended basins of natural ice above the heads of fever patients to cool the air and alleviate discomfort. Several decades after faraday made his discovery with ammonia a florida physician named john gorrie developed a machine to keep yellow fever patients cool.