In 1939, Frederick McKinley Jones patented the world’s first successful refrigerated transportation ... to be mounted onto the undersides of semi-trucks and to pass refrigerant tubing to their ...

A black and white photograph of Frederick McKinley Jones, taken around 1950 with his invention, a refrigerated truck.

TRU manufacturer’s first engineer, Frederick McKinley Jones, joins American Truck Historical Society ... created Thermo King and the transport refrigeration industry in 1938, Thermo King reported.

Frederick McKinley Jones was born on the 17th of May ... In 1937, he invented a portable cooling system for trucks, making it possible to carry perishable Goods without using ice which he patented ...

When you’re a kid, one of the surest signs of summer is hearing the happy sound of the ice cream truck crawling through the neighborhood. You don’t worry about how that magical truck is ...

When the United States entered WWII, Logisticians for the first time could bring refrigerated food, water, drugs, and blood to the battlefield thanks to Frederick McKinley Jones' innovative ...

Another African-American inventor, Frederick McKinley Jones, invented a container ... for inventing an automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks and railroad cars.

Frederick McKinley Jones ... hot summer night in 1937, Jones was driving when an idea struck him: What if he could invent a portable cooling system that would allow trucks to better transport ...