World Refrigeration Day: Cool Skills - Past and Present
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Come to Geelong Showgrounds Museum’s Exhibition on the history of your ‘fridge on June 26, to celebrate World Refrigeration Day (theme ‘Cool Skills’ – also showing on June 28). Every hour, guides will introduce the exhibit; you can also browse other pioneering industry displays.James Harrison invented commercial ice-making in Geelong in 1854. In 1859 he set up Australia's first ice works here, attempting the world’s first export of frozen meat in 1873. Based on his cool skills Geelong developed industries and exported 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, people with cool skills make and service all of our refrigerators, air conditioners and heaters; support medicine and science; and enable food manufacture and transport world-wide.
Really cool skills enable rocket science.
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Thursday 26 June 2025 - Saturday 28 June 2025 (UTC+10)Location
Geelong Showgrounds Museum
Gate 2, 79 Breakwater Rd, East Geelong Victoria 3219
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