Frederick McKinley Jones was born on the 17th of May ... By nine, his father passed away and he remained in the care of the priest until he left school after the sixth grade.

Until Frederick McKinley Jones came along ... Frederick’s mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father struggled to raise him alone. When no orphanage would accept the seven-year ...

In this first volume, which Anderson says he wrote specifically for Black History Month, we learn the story of Frederick McKinley Jones, a technology pioneer whose inventions in the science of ...

Frederick McKinley Jones was orphaned by age 8 and raised by a Catholic priest before he dropped out of high school. That didn’t stop him from pursuing his calling as an inventor whose work ...

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 ...

In 1939, Frederick McKinley Jones patented the world’s first successful refrigerated transportation system. At the time, he was working for the Minneapolis-based company U.S. Thermo Control.

Turns out one inventor, Frederick McKinley Jones ... that could handle these long-distance trips. So he went to his partner, Fred Jones, with the problem. Within weeks, Jones had invented ...

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