Food & agriculture · 1927

Home refrigerator

GE's Monitor-Top put a sealed electric fridge in ordinary kitchens.

The 1927 Monitor-Top sold over a million units and helped make home refrigeration standard in the US by the 1950s. Cold storage at home cut food waste and poisoning, and ended the daily trip to market.

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What it built on 3

Electric power grid 1882
Mechanical refrigeration 1834
Electric motor 1834

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

US households with a refrigerator Latest: 98 % of households (2017) Source: Our World in Data

US households with electric power Latest: 99 % of households (2005) Source: Our World in Data

Life expectancy at birth Latest: 73.2 years (2023) Source: Our World in Data