Question: What Florida city is known for being the birthplace of refrigeration?
Answer: Apalachicola
In 1833, a doctor named John Gorrie moved from New York to Apalachicola. Dr. Gorrie began to experiment with a way to make ice. In 1848, Dr. Gorrie filed the first patent for an artificial refrigeration machine. U.S. Patent No. 8080 was granted on May 6, 1851, for a machine that improved the process for the artificial production of ice.
