Edmund J. Copeland posing with refrigeration unit prototype
Description:
View of Edmund J. Copeland posing with his first working model of an electric automatic refrigeration unit. Label on back: "Public Relations Department. Kelvinator Division, American Motors Corporation, Detroit 32, Michigan. 18583. Edmund J. Copeland, originator of electric automatic refrigeration, views his first practical model. The compressor the refrigerating unit sets inside the cooling coils for the refrigerant, which are wound around the compressor on a wooden base, much after the appearance of an old wicker clothes basket. Present day models present a more beautiful design and provide much greater capacity than this prototype of our modern electric refrigerators, but in constancy of service and efficiency of operation, the old patriarch did not have to bow to its more youthful progeny. When recently removed to be replaced by a larger unit, it was still giving perfect satisfaction. (This caption material was with original picture owned by E.J. Copeland, Heath-Jipson copied for Kelvinator Division, January, 1954)." Handwritten on back: "Copeland, Edmund J."
