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Gas refrigerator
Category Home appliances
Subcategory Refrigerators
Year of manufacture/creation the 1930s
Manufacturer/author Electrolux
Place of manufacture/creation Stockholm, Sweden
Size
Height: 95 cm
Width: 54 cm
Depth: 54 cm
Weight: 50 kg
Material steel, enamel, copper
Museum/Storage location Gasworks Museum in Paczków
Date of admission to the museum 1992
Rights to the exhibit Gasworks Museum in Paczków
Rights to digital images public domain
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Exhibit description
Gas refrigerators of this type could be seen by Polish customers for the first time during a trade exhibition held in Warsaw in 1923. Gas fridges were displayed at the stand of a Swedish company called Electrolux. This enterprise was the first to manufacture refrigerating units dedicated to domestic use.
Although they were popular and innovative at that time, today these gas refrigerators have been replaced by electric devices. Such was the fate of this exhibit, which arrived at the Museum in Paczków after it was found by gas engineers investigating gas pipework in a cellar of one of the inspected buildings.
