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How did the first fridge keep food cool?

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The first fridges used ammonia and an electrical pump which would forced the liquid through tubes that ran along the back of the refrigerator. With time the moving parts involved in the electrical pumps would cause breaks in the tubes or the pump itself and the ammonia would leak into the home, often causing death to the family. In the 1920's Einstein, for this very reason invented the very first pump with no moving parts also known as the electromagnetic pump. This was then used to pump the ammonia until Freon gas (Chloro-Fluoro-Carbon). As it is more efficient and safer.

The actual cooling of the food is related to the second law of thermodynamics. As long as the tubes filled with ammonia are cooler than the food within the fridge, the heat will constantly move from the food to the cold tubes until it reaches a temperature equilibrium.

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