Learning about American History through ice?

We’ll drink to that! In Discover Magazine’s article, they acknowledge the effects the civil war had on ice trade and detail the efforts one doctor took to use the “white gold” in a “cooling machine” for his patients.

The physician went on to create one of the first machines which created ice, but his ice machine “been found in advance of the wants of the country.”

Check out their story here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-history-of-human-made-ice