Patent Model - Improvement in Refrigerators
Maker and role
Henry Walbridge (b.1818, d.1911), Patentee
Production date
Nov 28 1876
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood, paint
Measurements
18 1/2 x 8 x 7" (47 x 20.3 x 17.8cm)
Description
Walbridge's patent focuses on the "construction and arrangement of a refrigerator". One of the improvements is "a case containing the provision-chamber and ice-box, and a suspended and counterbalanced case or cylinder surrounding the same..." (Patent Number 184,740)
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Object number
2015.14.2292a,b
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