TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust dictionaryofsydney.org Submitted by stumcm t3_y5vimm on October 16, 2022 at 11:42 PM in todayilearned 177 comments 3,011
Jsnooots t1_ism1b80 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 12:03 AM The ice industry in the Poconos in Pennsylvania was huge and then gone in just over a year once ice production no longer relied on saved winter ice. Permalink 61
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