How Was Ice Harvested Before Refrigeration?
from The Quiet Shift: Everyday Wonders for Sleep Hosted by The Quiet Shift
On February 10th, 1806, a brig sailed from Boston to Martinique carrying 80 tons of ice — and the newspapers laughed. Tonight: the Persian desert fridges that made ice in 50°C summers, the Roman snow trade, China's imperial ice ministry, Frederic Tudor the Ice King (debtors' prison to fortune), ice shipped 16,000 miles to Calcutta — and the machine that ended it all. Just long enough to fall asleep to. 🌙
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