Editing Refrigerator (section)

=== Supplantation of the ice trade ===
The [[ice trade]] was an industry in the 19th and 20th centuries of the harvesting, transportation, and sale of natural and artificial ice for the purposes of refrigeration and consumption. The majority of the ice used for trade was harvested from North America and transported globally with some smaller operations working out of [[Norway]].<ref>Clemen, Rudolf A. “The American Ice Harvests: An Historical Study in Technology, 1800–1918. By Richard O. Cummings. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. Pp. x, 184. $3.00.” ''The Journal of economic history'' 10.2 (1950): 226–227. Web.</ref> With the introduction of more affordable large and home scale refrigeration around the 1920s, the need for large scale ice harvest and transportation was no longer needed, and the ice trade subsequently slowed and shrank to smaller scale local services or disappeared altogether.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-07 |title=Tracing the History of New England's Ice Trade |url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/tracing-the-history-of-new-england-ice-trade/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Boston University |language=en}}</ref>