12. Automatic Refrigeration Systems
Inventor: Frederick McKinley Jones
Year: 1949
Frederick McKinley Jones is the reason why food can be shipped without spoiling. At a young age, he worked as an automobile apprentice and in 1949 received a patent for his invention of the automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks. But before then, he designed portable refrigeration units for military camps that would serve as vital implements to store blood for wounded soldiers. Nobility at its finest. His cool contributions definitely improved the quality of life.
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