No one really knows since when a refrigerator started being called a fridge. A scientific reason for this abbreviation does not exist, only the natural tendency to shorten words.
Ice box and the refrigerator
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In Sanskrit, a refrigerator is called "prāṇika yantra" (प्राणिक यन्त्र).
The first functional household refrigerator, the Domelre, was produced in Chicago in 1912. Six years later, American Nathaniel Wales designed a unit called the Kelvinator, which employed compression technology
It removes thermal energy on what ever you place on the refrigerator. The first principle is transfer of heat, the second is solidification or vapourization.
People are not sure who make a refrigerator.(:
It is called fridge in hindi.
see History.com -- history of the refrigerator
Oliver Evans came up with the blueprints for the first refrigerator in 1804. Oliver Evans came up with the blueprints for the first refrigerator in 1804.
The refrigerator was invented by John Gorrie.
thomas Moore invented the fridge freezer and refrigerator
Thefirst electric refrigerator was sold 1928
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