The Great Refrigeration and the Slow Unfreezing of a Man Named...

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The Great Refrigeration and the Slow Unfreezing of a Man Named Arthur Pendelton

I The ice stopped coming in the autumn of 1887. That was the first death. Not a person—a system. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad had laid ice houses along its lines, massive structures packed with harvested winter frost shipped south to feed a network of cold storage facilities. Men like Arthur Pendelton managed them. They measured temperature in degrees and profit in barrels. They were the...

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