LLOYD'S REFRIGERATION INC history

Fourcroy and Vauquelin liquefied ammonia, at atmospheric pressure (the experiment was repeated by Guyton de Morveau in 1804)

Alexander Catlin Twining began experiments with vapor- compression refrigeration and ice making . Caveat filed with US Patent Office in 1849.

R.J.E. Clausius put forward the modern version of Carnot’s Principle and introduced the notion of entropy (the word was not used until 1865)

Methyl Chloride successfully used as a refrigerant by Camille Vincent of France. (British Patent 470 of 1879)

Hermetically sealed refrigeration system patented by Marcel Audiffren in France (French Patent 238845). Manufactured after 1903 in France by Henri Singrün.

Maurice Leblanc – Steam jet refrigerating machine (made by Westinghouse in 1909, in Paris)

Walter Nernst – Theory of the behavior of matter in the neighborhood of absolute zero (“Third law” of Thermodynamics). In 1912 he produced a new formula: absolute zero is in principle unattainable.

Changed refrigerant to dichloroethylene in 1923.

Marketed beginning in 1928.

Introduction of deep hypothermia in experimental surgery: J. Giaja and R.K. Andjus (Yugoslavia) and W.G. Bigelow (Canada). First tried in 1939 in the United StatesA. by C.A. Kossman.

Heat pipe invented by R.S. Gaugler,( United States patent 1944)

The company was incorporated in the state of Texas in 1974.