Capital-Quantity9956
Capital-Quantity9956 t1_ism536l wrote
Reply to comment by SleeperHitPrime in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
How is any ice NOT desalinated by nature
Capital-Quantity9956 t1_ismpkj6 wrote
Reply to comment by cptkl1 in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
And be transported over lengths of time that include entire months? Haha what a dumb question