ASHRAE Headquarters Installs Display of First Electric Refrigerator
Unit was the first attempt to mass-market a simple, inexpensive household refrigerator
ATLANTA — ASHRAE has installed a piece of refrigeration history at its headquarters in Atlanta with the display of the first successful electric household refrigerator manufactured 100 years ago.
The DOMEstic ELectric REfrigerator (DOMELRE) marked the first attempt to mass-market a simple, inexpensive household refrigerator. It was also the first successfully manufactured air-cooled system, and the first to be easily portable, being designed as a ready plug-in refrigerator unit that could be added to an ice box, instantly converting it to an electric refrigerator.