Zimri-Lim builds an ice house at Terqa
Persian yakhchāls store and make desert ice
William Cullen demonstrates artificial refrigeration
Oliver Evans designs a closed vapor-compression cycle
Frederic Tudor launches the global ice trade
Michael Faraday liquefies chlorine
Sadi Carnot publishes Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
Tudor's ice ship Tuscany reaches Calcutta
Jean-Charles Peltier discovers the Peltier effect
Jacob Perkins patents the vapor-compression refrigerator
John Gorrie receives the first US patent for an ice machine
Joule and Thomson discover the Joule–Thomson effect
James Harrison patents an ether compression machine
Ferdinand Carré develops the ammonia absorption refrigerator
Thomas Andrews discovers the critical point
Linde's first refrigeration machine installed at Spaten Brewery
Van der Waals proposes his real-gas equation
Mort and Nicolle demonstrate frozen food in Sydney
Linde develops the ammonia compression refrigerator
Pictet and Cailletet liquefy oxygen
Swift and Chase design the practical refrigerator rail car
Linde founds Linde's Ice Machine Company
James Dewar invents the vacuum flask
Linde files the Hampson–Linde air-liquefaction patent
James Dewar liquefies hydrogen
Willis Carrier designs the first modern air-conditioning system
Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium
First International Congress of Refrigeration
Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity
Kamerlingh Onnes wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
Einstein and Szilárd invent the Einstein refrigerator
GE introduces the Monitor Top refrigerator
Birds Eye frozen foods go on sale in Springfield
Midgley unveils Freon
Giauque achieves adiabatic demagnetization cooling
Bernard Fantus opens the first hospital blood bank
Superfluidity of helium is reported
First dilution refrigerator built
Superfluid helium-3 discovered
Molina and Rowland warn that CFCs destroy ozone
Laser cooling first demonstrated
Bednorz and Müller discover high-temperature superconductivity
UW solution extends cold storage of donor organs
Montreal Protocol signed
First Bose–Einstein condensate created
Kigali Amendment targets HFC refrigerants