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 ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Frederick McKinley Jones at his drafting desk. Jones was a prolific inventor who invented a cooling system used in Army trucks in World War II to transport ...

Frederick McKinley Jones’ big break started with ... Within weeks, Jones had invented the refrigerated semi-truck. Together, Jones and Numero started what’s now known as Thermo King—one ...

Until Frederick McKinley Jones came along, mobile refrigeration ... Frederick patented the first practical automated refrigeration system for trucks, and it revolutionized the shipping and storage ...

Frederick McKinley Jones patented more than sixty inventions ... Model As were designed to be mounted onto the undersides of semi-trucks and to pass refrigerant tubing to their trailers.

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 ...

Before he secured the first of his 61 patents — inventing everything from refrigerated trucks to movie-ticket dispensers — Frederick McKinley Jones was down on his luck. It was 1913.

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 Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony in Kansas City. The American Truck Historical ...

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Frederick McKinley Jones was orphaned by age 8 and raised by ... What if he could invent a portable cooling system that would allow trucks to better transport perishable food?

and Frederick McKinley Jones, designer of the first portable refrigeration unit for trucks. Harris highlights the store’s mission to inspire local youth. "We wanted to create that type of ...