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REFRIGERATOR With the introduction of small electric motors and nontoxic Freon in the 1930s, refrigerators migrated from industry to home, replacing iceboxes and gaspowered refrigerators. In 1927 GE established an electric-refrigeration department, and in 1931 Sears sold its first affordable refrigerator...
...Water is cooled down with a heat exchanger using freon as refrigerant," he says. "In the chiller, gas is compressed, and then as it expands, the cooling effect results...
...Company of Men Gamesmanship '90s-style: a nasty corporate jock sets up a woman--and his soft-willed colleague--for the betrayal of their middle-class lives. Neil LaBute's Freon-cool comedy, made for a preposterously low $25,000, outraged viewers who didn't get the dark joke or the narrative suavity. See it with someone you're sure loves...
...signed the Montreal Protocol, which restricted the use of ozone-depleting freon and CDCs. The Protocol is the model for this year's conference in Kyoto, he added...
...Antoni handling the keyboards and samples, and Yuval Gabay on drums. Their music is a blend of very danceable bass and keyboard sounds and samples with surreal, beat-like vocals by Doughty. On the tune, "Sugar Free Jazz," for instance, "They normalize the signals and you're banging on freon,/Paleolithic eons, put the fake goatee on/and it booms as cool as, sugarfree jazz...