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Frederick McKinley Jones is the inventor of the refrigeration unit. He invented the first portable air-cooling unit, also referred to as the refrigeration unit. With his innovations, mobile refrigeration was improved for the long-distance transport of medical supplies, food, and other perishable goods.
Frederick McKinley Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in late Spring of 1893. By the time he was 14 years old, he was able to work with automobiles as a naturally skilled mechanic. From there he continued to self-educate, read and study material that contributed to his natural mechanical ability and innovative mind.
Jones continued to seek advancement and moved from Cincinnati to Hallock, Minnesota. He gained employment as a mechanic on a farm and eventually joined the U.S. Army during World War I. After his time in the military, he returned to Hallock as a mechanic. He continued self-educating, and with his natural mechanical ability, he was able to grasp the intricacies of electronics. From what he learned he was able to build a transmitter for the town’s radio station. During this period, Jones also invented a device that would revolutionize Cinema. He built a device that could finally combine sound with a motion picture. This actually caught the eye of Joseph A. Numero in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jones began working for Numero in 1930, helping to improve the firm’s sound equipment.
Jones continued to invent and expand his understanding of mechanics and electronics. In 1938, he designed the portable air-cooling units used on trucks that carry perishable goods. By 1940, he received a patent for it and Joseph A. Numero decided to sell his Cinema sound equipment firm in order to go into business with Jones. They formed a new company that specialized in refrigerated/cooling units. It became a multi-million dollar company by 1949 with the introduction of the refrigerated truck.
The designs for the portable air-cooling unit were especially important during World War II. They were used to help transport perishable goods throughout the military hospitals and across the open battlefields. It helped preserve food, maintain medicines, and other time-sensitive goods. Medical tents and army hospitals were able to receive blood for their patients. Those on the battlefield didn’t starve to death because they were able to receive supplies due to the portable air-cooling unit.
Jones continued to invent, earning as many as 61 patents in his lifetime. The majority of his inventions were for refrigeration equipment, but his other inventions helped many industries. For instance, he received further patents for portable X-ray machines, improved audio/sound equipment, and more efficient gasoline engines. As an entrepreneur and inventor, it wasn’t long before he got the recognition he deserved. Frederick Mckinley Jones became the first African American to be included in the American Society of Refrigeration-Engineers by 1944. This led to more work in the 1950s, consulting for the U.S. DoD (department of defense) as well as the Bureau of Standards.
Now, I know, I know....
OK, so he invented refrigeration, it was already invented.
No. That's not what he invented. He invented PORTABLE AIR COOLED REFRIGERATION!
This changed the ENTIRE world. His work has saved literally hundred of millions, perhaps even billions. He's the reason you can have bananas picked in fucking bumfuck South America shipped to Asshole California for fucking hipsters to shove in their ass without them going bad. He's why there's blood that can be moved around.
This man, who is NEVER fucking listed by the faggots at MTV and Black History Month, CHANGED THE GODDAMN WORLD!
Look at the shit he did.
Just his refrigeration had a HUGE hand in winning World War Two.
It's averted famine.
It's changed agriculture.
This guy, right fucking here, who with ONE FUCKING INVENTION changed the world arguably more than anything else in the 20th century, yes, even more than microchips and Windows, even more than the invention of the machine gun and the atomic bomb.
But no, they want to make shit up and misrepresent shit rather than having like a 2 week fucking knob slob party for this amazing motherfucker.
Just wanted to toss this dude up.
