![]() ![]() ![]() By 1923, the Kelvinator Company held 80% of the American market for electric refrigerators. Kelvinator began buying Leonard's boxes for its electric refrigerated models. įrustrated by iceboxes, the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company introduced a porcelain lined "Leonard Cleanable" ice cabinet. In 1918 Kelvinator introduced the first refrigerator with any type of automatic control. Kelvinator was among some two dozen home refrigerators introduced to the U.S. In February 1916, the name of the company was changed to "Kelvinator Company" in honor of the Irish-Scottish physicist, Lord Kelvin ( William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin), the discoverer of absolute zero. Wales, a young inventor, secured financial backing from Arnold Goss, then secretary of the Buick Automobile company, to develop the first household mechanical refrigerators to be marketed under the name "Electro-Automatic Refrigerating Company." After producing a number of experimental models, Wales selected one for manufacturing. Wales who introduced his idea for a practical electric refrigeration unit for the home to Edmund Copeland and Arnold Goss. Kelvinator was founded on September 18, 1914, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by engineer Nathaniel B.
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