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Large country estates used to build brick storage houses underground and covered in earth,,,,Snow and ice was collected during the winter months and stored in these man made caves,they were looked after by the staff and the heat was regulated by the fact that they were underground and packed tight with the snow and ice mixture.
Um...they probably walked outside in the winter and compacted some snow. I don't know if there was any other way at the time!
They did'nt make it. They cut it out of frozen lakes in large blocks, and placed it in a special ice house. This was a brick lined ,small building, usually underground. The ice was stored here, and pieces chopped off when needed
People would actually purchase ice from northern portions of Europe and have them delivered during the year. Ice would literally be floated downstream from colder northern climates and stored in big ice houses. Ice houses were warehouses that kept ice cold by, believe it or not, wrapping it in fur! Fur is a great insulator and one of the big uses of the beaver pelts from America was to construct ice chests and wrappings for ice to keep the heat out. In terms of making ice, I'm not sure that there was a method for that.
The Victorians didn't actually "make" ice, the most common practice was to create a shallow pond, usually at the outlet of a watermill of some sort. In winter, this shallow pond would be flooded and when frozen,crews would go on the ice and cut out large chunks with wood saws, load these on wagons and then ship them (over land by wagon or rail, or over water by boat or ship) packed in an insulating material, usually sawdust. Of course, when a natural water body was available and would freeze over in winter, it would also be treated in the same manner.
Place a pot of water between two Victorians who don't like one another and let them use their icy stare to make the water freeze.
It was harvested in the winter and kept in the 'ice house' and delivered by the 'ice man'. Many older homes still have a special small door from the outside (generally on the back porch) into a zinc lined and insulated spot for the delivery of blocks of ice.
In a place called a ice house it was a brick built under ground room out in the garden only large estates had them.
They froze water
Natural ice harvesting was a major industry in the 19th century. A brief history:
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The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748, and relied on the vapor-compression refrigeration process explained by Michael Faraday. Between 1805, when Oliver Evans designed the first refrigeration machine that used vapor instead of liquid, and 1902 when Willis Haviland Carrier demonstrated the first air conditioner, scores of inventors contributed many small advances in cooling machinery. In 1850 or 1851, Dr. John Gorrie demonstrated an ice maker. In 1857, Australian James Harrisonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/refrigerato...
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