ASHRAE displays first electric refrigerator at its headquarters
ASHRAE has added a piece of history to its headquarters in Atlanta with the display of the first successful electric household refrigerator manufactured 100 years ago.
The DOMEstic ELectric REfrigerator (DOMELRE) marked the first attempt to mass-market a simple, inexpensive household refrigerator. It was also the first successfully manufactured air cooled system, and the first to be easily portable, being designed as a ready plug in refrigerator unit that could be added to an ice box, instantly converting it to an electric refrigerator.