Icebox
Non-mechanical household appliance for cooling foodstuffs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the non-mechanical refrigeration appliance. For other uses, see Ice Box (disambiguation).
An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as "refrigerators". Only after the invention of the modern electric refrigerator did early non-electric refrigerators become known as iceboxes.[1] The terms ice box and refrigerator were used interchangeably in advertising as long ago as 1848.[2]