Who Patented Gas Absorbsion Refigeration?
Country: Sweden Company: Electrolux, Servel Individual Holding Patent: Albert Einstein
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The company was Electrolux. The refrigerator Electrolux designed and marketed was under the brand name SERVEL.
The Servel absorbsion refrigerator was the standard of the world for decades.
RV refrigerators are far inferior in durability as compared to a Servel. i.e. heavier weight. A ten cubic foot servel cooling unit weighs five times as much as a Dometic or Norcold unit. It was not uncommon for a Servel to accumulate hundreds of thousands of trouble-free service hours.
When rural electrification phased out and grid transmission replaced it the gas refrigerator was dumped like a red headed stepchild. Forty years ago I hauled a three axle enclosed utility trailer to Mexico. In it was 18 Servel refrigerators of various sizes, years and models.
All had been tested and tweaked to make sure they did what they were supposed to.
They were a gift by a mountain resort that I outfitted with a pair of gen sets.
I arrived at my (rural) destination. Within 5 days all of the refrigerators had been purchased. People were tired of scarfing fresh meat and vegetables then living on dried meat and desiccated vegetables.
The Servel absorbsion refrigerator was the standard of the world for decades.
RV refrigerators are far inferior in durability as compared to a Servel. i.e. heavier weight. A ten cubic foot servel cooling unit weighs five times as much as a Dometic or Norcold unit. It was not uncommon for a Servel to accumulate hundreds of thousands of trouble-free service hours.
When rural electrification phased out and grid transmission replaced it the gas refrigerator was dumped like a red headed stepchild. Forty years ago I hauled a three axle enclosed utility trailer to Mexico. In it was 18 Servel refrigerators of various sizes, years and models.
All had been tested and tweaked to make sure they did what they were supposed to.
They were a gift by a mountain resort that I outfitted with a pair of gen sets.
I arrived at my (rural) destination. Within 5 days all of the refrigerators had been purchased. People were tired of scarfing fresh meat and vegetables then living on dried meat and desiccated vegetables.
