Icebox

An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as "refrigerators". Only after the invention of the modern electric refrigerator did early non-electric refrigerators become known as iceboxes.^[1] The terms ice box and refrigerator were used interchangeably in advertising as long ago as 1848.^[2]

^ Rees, Jonathan (2013-12-15). Refrigeration Nation. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-1106-4.
^ [1], Description of a View of the City of Paris, Taken from the Place de la, London, 1848.

[1] Rees, Jonathan (2013-12-15). Refrigeration Nation. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-1106-4.

[2] [1], Description of a View of the City of Paris, Taken from the Place de la, London, 1848.

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