Icebox, to store and keep cool foods. This model combines the product from the ice cold air circulation. The refrigerator was patented on December 7, 1851. This is an ancestor of the appliance, which did not involve the use of energy. Retail mail order catalog, England 1907. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)
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