How about this for prescience?
An 1858 article about a demonstration of the world's first commercial ice-making machine, which predicted heat pump technology would be most useful for cooling apartments and food:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…
An 1858 article about a demonstration of the world's first commercial ice-making machine, which predicted heat pump technology would be most useful for cooling apartments and food:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…
They even predicted that people would have weird debates about whether clear ice or white ice is better!
The coal-powered ice machine was made in London for export to Geelong, in the gold-rush colony of Victoria -- clearly the one place in the British Empire with the wealth to invest in such a wild luxury as refrigeration.
A funny thing is that "the preservation of animal food" was the main food use they could think of. The idea of using it for human food apparently seemed too outlandish?
Unless by "animal food" they meant "meat" rather than "fodder"? 🤔
"Mr Harrison's first machine was made in Geelong in 1855, but from the inferiority of colonial workmanship the trial was a failure." 🤣
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