James Harrison - Refrigeration Pioneer Published on April 16, 2019 April 16, 2019 • 19 Likes • 1 Comments. In 1859, he founded the Victoria Ice Works on Franklin Street.
Prestige and Awards Round 2 of City of Sydney’s grants for building owners, managers and tenants in their council area opens June 19. Although Harrison never made a fortune from his invention, he had the satisfaction and prestige of knowing the Harrison-Siebe refrigerating machine won medals at London’s South Kensington International Exhibition in 1862, and at Vienna’s International Exhibition of 1873. James Harrison, the Scottish-Australian that changed our world forever. James Harrison has taken his place amongst the most significant engineering pioneers. After making the trek from his native Scotland to the Australian colonies, James Harrison charted a life of extraordinary achievement.
The book James Harrison – Pioneering Genius by WR (Roy) Lang, which has recently gone out of print, has been made digitally available on AIRAH’s website. The year 1854 was an important one in Australian history. James Harrison was born on April 17th, 1816, in Scotland, moving to Australia in 1837.
Between Melbourne and Cape Horn most of the meat had to be thrown overboard. The “Father of Refrigeration” is a world-changing Australian inventor you probably haven’t heard of Leave a Comment / Refrigeration / By Dennis Murphy Meet James Harrison – a Scotsman who arrived in Sydney in 1837, worked as printer on the Sydney Morning Herald, and then invented the world’s first commercially viable ice-making machine to chill beer and freeze meat .
His attempts to establish shipboard refrigeration between Australia and the UK met with abject failure. All rights reserved. The firm is celebrating both their 75th anniversary and what would have been founder Allan George Coombs' 100th birthday. He even has the honour of having the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Heating (AIRAH) name its most prestigious award after him: the James Harrison Medal. He built and experimented with a closed refrigerating system and after improvement secured Victoria Patent 25 in 1855, followed by British Patents 747 in 1856 and then BP 749. The basic design remained unchanged until 1888. As AIRAH notes in its website, it featured a vapor compression system, just like those found in modern refrigerators and air conditioners today.
Harrison was born in Bonhill, in Dunbartonshire, Scotland but moved to Australia to take up a position as a print machine ‘compositer’ for a publisher in Sydney. He created Australia’s first vapour-compression refrigeration system using ether.
This eventually led to establishing, in partnership with blacksmith John Scott, an ice works on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point. In December, the Eureka Stockade took place.
Please send me suggestions to me and we will include them as part of the World Refrigeration Day* initiative. He was seen as a respected pillar of the community.
Today, a bridge over the Barwon is named in his honour. source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/james-harrison-refrigeration-pioneer-stephen.
Harrison’s novel refrigeration system utilised a compressor to force ether vapour into a condenser. Harrison established the Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and eventually became its sole owner. The basic design remained unchanged until 1888. **credit to Stephen Gill**
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