Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Condensing Units – Household
By the mid 1930’s the North American refrigeration industry was moving rapidly to the adoption of much more sophisticated engineering conceptions of what the refrigeration machine might now become, based on a decade or more of manufacturing, engineering and research experience. Moving beyond the notion of stand-alone condensing unit, a significant step was the development of condensing units with integral evaporators, close coupled, to produce a single unified refrigeration mechanism for a cabinet refrigerator. The Sunbeam Electric Mfd. Co., Evansville Ind. made a significant contribution to this important evolutionary stage of development, 1936.
Technical Significance:
Stands as a significant marker in the evolution of cabinet refrigeration systems working towards highly integrated specialised systems which would increasigly be the norm in the latter part of the century