Ferdinand Carré
French inventor
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adsorption cooling
- In adsorption chiller
…mid-19th century, when French scientist Ferdinand Carré invented a similar system, known as absorption refrigeration, that used water and ammonia. Other designs followed, including one first patented in 1928 by German-born American physicist Albert Einstein and his former student, Hungarian-born American physicist Leo Szilard. Public acceptance of the Einstein-Szilard
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development of refrigeration equipment
- In refrigeration
…complex system was developed by Ferdinand Carré of France in 1859. Unlike earlier vapour-compression machines, which used air as a coolant, Carré’s equipment contained rapidly expanding ammonia. (Ammonia liquefies at a much lower temperature than water and is thus able to absorb more heat.) Carré’s refrigerators were widely used, and…
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