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drygnfyre t1_ismflc3 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in 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 by stumcm

They might have been common in Australia, but the ice itself had to come from somewhere. That's what the article is about. It's not saying refrigeration in other forms did not exist before 1851.

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