Refrigerator thermostat
View of a refrigerator thermostat developed by Edmund J. Copeland. Label on back: "Public Relations Department. Kelvinator Division, American Motors Corporation, Detroit 32, Michigan. 18583. This little device cost $125,000, but it made possible electric automatic refrigeration. It's a thermostat, the first dependable refrigerator control that started and stopped the refrigerator automatically in response to changes in temperature. Development of this thermostat by Edmund J. Copeland, one of the founders of Kelvinator, made possible the modern electric household refrigerator. The thermostat is only 5-1/2 inches high and 4-1/2 inches wide, but it cost $125,000 to create. It was developed along with Kelvinator's first successful household refrigerating mechanism during World War I." Handwritten on back: "Copeland, Edmund J."
- Resource ID:
- bh022186
- Subject:
- Thermostat
- Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery--Michigan--Detroit
- Copeland, Edmund J.
- Kelvinator Corporation (Detroit, Mich.)
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- Reading Room File-Copeland, Edmund J.
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.