Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Evaporators – Household
A precursor of the high style, amenity driven, frozen food, household refrigerator cooling unit of the middle years of the 20 th century, this one is equipped for capillary refrigerant flow control. It employs high conductivity, smoothly articulated surfaces, here executed in stainless steel, employing sophisticated engineering and manufacturing methods, here-to not available to the industry, Norge, 1942.
High style evaporator door in white porcelain, with gold monographNatural rubber door gasket in pigmented grey.
Rear mounted refrigerator light
Technical Significance:
The significance of this specimen rests in its evolutionary context. It is part of the dynamic, rapidly changing pattern of developmental events that saw the Canadian refrigeration industry move beyond its crude, early offerings to the households of the nation and do so in a period of much less than two decades. Markers of the changing times evident here include: large, fast freezing surfaces for frozen foods, modern amenities and styling, along with technologically elegant refrigerant flow control methods. Taking advantage of war time research and development in the aluminium industry, the industry would shortly move to its use, as the material of choice in the fabrication of household evaporators – but not with out considerable growing pains.
Industrial Significance:
See report #014 for the special contribution of companies like Borg Warner to the work of the Canadian refrigeration industry