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World Refrigeration Day: Cool Skills - Past and Present

Name: World Refrigeration Day: Cool Skills - Past and Present
Start: 2025-06-26T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-06-28T14:00:00+10:00
Location: Geelong Showgrounds Museum

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Come to an Exhibition of refrigeration history for World Refrigeration Day (June 26 and 28) at the Geelong Showgrounds Museum. The 2025 theme is ‘Cool Skills’, with introductory talks every hour. The Museum’s collections also cover many industries.
Geelong’s James Harrison invented commercial ice-making here in 1854. In 1859 he established Australia's first ice works at North Geelong. He attempted the world’s first export of frozen meat in 1873. Since the 1890s, his technology has enabled Australia to export of thousands of tons of frozen meat.
Humble's Foundry in Ryrie St made Harrison’s machines from the 1860s, becoming refrigeration experts - see their 1910 compressor. See also Hallstrom’s 1930s Sydney-made domestic kerosene refrigerator.
Today, cool skills are needed to make and service all of our refrigerators, air conditioners and heaters; to support medicine and science; and to enable food manufacture and transport world-wide.
Really cool skills enable rocket science.