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How To Ask For Anything and Everything & The Unusual History of Ice

Something You Should Know

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The History of Ice

The first person to develop an ice machine was a doctor named John Gory, who lived in Apalachicola, Florida. The reason why he wanted to make ice was because he wanted to cure yellow fever. In 1820s Florida, the ice trade was brand new. Ice was still hard to come by and it was very expensive.

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