SleeperHitPrime t1_ism2lba wrote on October 17, 2022 at 12:13 AM Reply to TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm Presumably FRESH water Ice right?! Permalink 9
SleeperHitPrime t1_ism2lba wrote
Reply to TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
Presumably FRESH water Ice right?!