This year is the 100th anniversary of the invention of the first refrigerated truck. Made for the ice cream industry in 1925 by American inventor, Frederick McKinley Jones, it meant that chilled ...

Frederick McKinley Jones invented refrigerated shipping, allowing trucks and trains to move food worldwide. The self-taught engineer who lived in Hallock held dozens of patents that transformed ...

Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21 ... the Thermo Control Model A—the first automatic refrigeration unit for trucks. Although the Model A was too heavy for practical use ...

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

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

The first refrigerated truck was patented in 1939 by Frederick McKinley Jones, who co-founded Minneapolis-based U.S. Thermo Control, later renamed Thermo King. Jones’s improved Model C ...

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Frederick McKinley ... projectors into talking projectors, McKinley also found ways to enhance picture quality. By the late 1930s, Jones developed portable refrigeration to help the U.S. military ...