🥦🥩🥛🧀 Modern refrigerators owe a great deal to two engineers from Sweden – Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters. 🇸🇪 💡 In the early 1920s, von Platen and Munters – at the time still students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology – set out to create a refrigerator that could operate without traditional mechanical components such as compressors or a motor. Refrigerators at the time were noisy, prone to breakdowns, and required frequent maintenance. Von Platen and Munters hoped to solve not only that, but also aimed to create a cooling system that would also work in places lacking electricity. 👏 The design Von Platen and Munters eventually came up with is known as the absorption refrigerator – which utilised a combination of heat, ammonia, and water to produce cooling. The invention was not only quieter but also more durable than previous refrigerators, and in 1925, Swedish company electrolux acquired PMR and Arctic AB, the companies founded by von Platen and Munters, to ...