"Ice King" - the first person in the world who sold ice

In order for a project to sell water brought profit, Frederic Tudor took 26 years, but during this time he became one of the richest men in Boston and an expert in the field of ice.



Tudor was only 22 years old, to the GDS, he noticed that the people of Boston dug cellar, filled them with straw Arrangement ice, and stored food in them all summer. But in the world there were warm areas where there was no ice at all. Tudor decided to sell the ice there will be extremely profitable, so bought the ship, loaded it with ice and sailed to Martinique.

The ship was quite cool and the ice was shifting the straw, so that during the journey, everything was in order. But the ice has melted, almost a ship entered the harbor - Martinique was very hot, but the ice cellars where no one could hear. Tudor has lost most of his money, but that has not calmed down: after a year he sailed with a cargo of ice in the harbor, although the ice this time managed to keep buying it no one - people are used to warm food and drinks and did not see the meaning of their cooling. Most of the ice gave Tudor bars as advertising.



Tudor was in debt, but that did not stop him. He found that in the sawdust ice lasts longer than in the straw, and bought a special blade to cut the ice allows more smoothly, which also increases the shelf life. He built throughout the tropics to the ice cellar, and in 1833 was finally able to drop off their goods to Calcutta, which became for him one of the largest markets, because by the time the ice in hot regions became popular. However, not for long: in 1834, Jacob Perkins invented the freezer and the market itself disappeared. But fortune in trade ice Tudor still have time.

via factroom.ru