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> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A water cooler with a DC motor is > interesting; but did you ever see a _refrigerator_ powered by -gas- > rather than -electricity-? I had one of those in a long since for- > gotten apartment in Chicago back in the 1960's. No motor of course, no > compressor, etc, but it was a refrigerator, freezer, etc, and I think > (cannot remember for sure) it was manufactured by 'Frigidaire > Company'. Totally silent of course. I have no idea how it worked; if > I ever knew, I have since forgotten. PAT]
I encountered a gas refrigerator on a trip out West back in 1966 or
Anyway Google "absorption cycle" if you want to know the history and
http://www.robur.it/us/pag_technology_history.jsp
Sorry, can't think of any way to tie this back to telecom. Never
Dave Grebe
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But I have heard that when a gas leak |