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CELEBRATING 125 YEARS
Inventing the Ammonia
Refrigeration Compressor
Excerpt from Adventures in Heat and Cold, "Selling Lemonade to the Yankees and Inventing Ammonia Refrigeration with the Help of My Wife"
Many historical sources say that the ammonia refrigeration compressor was invented
by David Boyle. We can argue for and against that claim, but Boyle is legitimately a
refrigeration pioneer whose career is much more interesting when you consider his
arduous journey to success-with the help of his wife!
David Boyle began that journey in Johnstone,
"I was keeping store and making and selling ice cream
Renfrewshire, ten miles west of Glasgow, Scotland,
and lemonade. A brigade of Federal troops were stawhere he was born in 1837. His father was a grocer and
tioned there and were a bonanza to me. I had a shipliquor dealer who enjoyed tinkering with mechanment of ice from New Orleans.... The weather was hot
ics, and even building a cork-cutting machine. David
and it did not take long to get rid of it. I used it to cool
Boyle was said to enjoy playing around machine shops
lemonade and sold it at a good profit to the Yankee soland cotton factories and enjoyed reading The Glasgow
diers. The unreliability of transportation, the high cost,
MechanicsÕ Magazine. His budding techniand the absolute need of ice at Demopolis
cal interests were thwarted by his father
set me to thinking and determined me to
who insisted that he go into the grocery
attempt the making of a machine to supply
business, which he did, ultimately risthe wants of Demopolis. Just think of it! The
ing to foreman of a wholesale grocer. He
wants of Demopolis! And that was my idea."2
emigrated to Mobile, Alabama, desiring
Boyle's lemonade business was so successful
to start a grocery business. The American
that he made eight thousand dollars in four
Civil War ruined his progress and, by the
months. During the War, he had heard of an
end of the war, he only had 250 dollars to
ice-making machine operating in Augusta,
his name. By that time, he was living in
Georgia, so he went to see it in 1865, but
Demopolis, Alabama, and had recently
decided it would be too expensive to pursue,
David Boyle | 1837 - 1891
married Margaretta (Margaret) Henry, who
so he spent the next four years trying to find
was from Ireland. Northern soldiers were stationed in
out what other machines might be available. Nothing
Demopolis, and Boyle seized the moment by selling iced
was found until 1869, when he heard of an ice machine
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lemonade to them. Boyle later recalled the event:
in New Orleans. After investigating it, he sold his store
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