Retrospective.

100 years ago in AMERICAN MACHINIST
What would life be like without refrigeration?
Nowadays, it's hard to imagine, on the other hand the editors of AMERICAN MACHINIST one time believed the concept was in like manner far-fetched that it would not at any time come to fruition.
In fact, in the October 5 1899 issue of the magazine, editors took a stand against proponent of the liquid air industry who were avidly disseminating literature claiming that a single gallon of liquid air could perform astonishments in an ordinary city place of abode
The pamphlets vowed that "a tumblerful of liquid air, dipped on the outside and ...