What was the car refrigerator like 50 years ago?

Car refrigerator is a very strange automobile product for many people. Only when I hear that a car has a "refrigerator" will I be surprised. How did such a big refrigerator get on the bus? In fact, the car refrigerator has a history of more than 50 years …

Zhuangyou

As early as the end of 16 in Britain, after finishing their summer studies at school, the children of aristocrats would get on the carriage accompanied by tutors or personal footmen and travel and study in European cities such as Paris, Rome, Venice and Florence. In this is called "Zhuangyou" (The? Shanda? Tour), there is a "prop" essential, that is, the "refrigerator" that the footman carries with him-it is usually put in the carriage, with ice cubes in it, which is used to store fresh melons and fruits and brew drinks for traveling to cool off the summer.

Zhuang You (Shanda? Patrol), "grand? Tourism "refers to a traditional European trip made by the children of European aristocrats since the Renaissance, and later extended to the wealthy common people in Central Europe, Italy and Spain.". ".Zhuang You was especially popular in England in the18th century, leaving a rich description. "grand? "You" is translated as "Zhuang You", and the allusion comes from Du Fu's poem "Zhuang You".

Although European aristocrats have a long tradition of carrying "refrigerators", the category of car refrigerators really appeared in people's lives 5 1 years ago: 1967, the first one printed with Indel? B's car refrigerator was born in Italy, which opened the historical prelude of car refrigerator category. Prior to this, car refrigerators were widely used in automobile, yacht, medical and other fields.

Space flight and aviation

The earliest use of car refrigerators should have started from the aerospace industry.

When it comes to astronaut's food, many people think of "disgusting food squeezed out of a container like a toothpaste tube". Yuri gagarin, the "first man in space", ate meat sauce and chocolate sauce in three toothpaste tubes, weighing160g. This is how astronauts in the Soviet Union and the United States treat each other.

1958, the United States launched the "Mercury" program, and astronauts still can only eat bite-sized chunks of food, freeze-dried powder and semi-fluid in aluminum tubes. These foods will hardly give astronauts an appetite.

space food

Aluminum tube semi-fluid food

196 1 year, after NASA started the Gemini program, it was slightly improved. The extruded tubular containers are discarded, and astronauts can still enjoy freeze-dried chicken and vegetables. Freeze-dried food is put into a special plastic container for astronauts to recycle water. But the food still tastes terrible.

1965 During the first two-person flight of Gemini III, astronaut john young complained to his boss that the food was "unpalatable", but this complaint was ignored. So he quietly hid his favorite bacon sandwich in his spacesuit before the spacecraft took off and successfully "smuggled" it aboard.

Although john young was later severely criticized by NASA. However, this smuggling operation also indirectly accelerated the speed of space food research and development.

Yes, they brought sandwiches.

However, in fact, this is just a traditional stereotype. At present, astronauts can not only eat Lamian Noodles, fried rice, but also drink Coke, just like a spaceship on the tip of the tongue!

Because with the development of aviation technology, the space flight time is obviously prolonged, and the poor food seriously affects morale. Even NASA thinks that eating rehydrated food is really not the case, so it speeds up research and development.

Today, NASA can provide astronauts with more than 200 kinds of space meals. Compared with the past, there have been great changes. With the emergence of freeze-dried dehydrated food and high-grade soft-packed canned food, space food is not much different from what we eat on earth in appearance.

This is the one-day menu of the International Space Station in 2008:

The first meal: cottage cheese nuts, dried chicken plums, Moscow black bread, apple peach juice with pulp, sugar-free tea;

The second meal: frozen bass, farm soup, sauce meat, Borodinskiy bread, Kuraga, apple-blackcurrant juice with pulp, sugar-free tea;

The third meal: assorted shrimp, steak, macaroni and cheese, mixed juice, strawberry drink, lemon tea;

The fourth meal: granola rolls, almonds, peach and apricot drinks;

Now, astronauts may become jobs that even foodies will envy.

Car refrigerator with space

Since you want to take so much food to the space station, it is also necessary to keep it fresh and cook, so you have to mention the electrical appliances that went up with the spacecraft.

For example, Shenzhou IX is equipped with a microwave oven; In order to let astronauts eat hot meals, Tiangong-2 is also equipped with a special food heater. In order to save food for astronauts, NASA is looking for refrigerator manufacturers; These scientists who explore the universe also seem to be trying to make astronauts live a life more in line with the habits of the earth in space.

1982, Italian car refrigerator manufacturer indel? B became a strategic cooperation supplier of NASA, and on June 27th of the same year, indel? B specially developed loading refrigerator followed NASA Columbia spacecraft into space to live in space, code-named STS-4.

This is the first time that Columbia has entered the universe with a car refrigerator. The flight lasted 7 days 1 hour 9 minutes 3 1 second. Two astronauts, Hartsfield and Mattingly, were the first people to experience life in space with a refrigerator. During the Apollo 10 mission, various rehydrated foods replaced the "toothpaste tube" that made people talk about color change; Also added more humanized canned food; Due to the existence of the refrigerator, fruit cakes, jellies, dried peaches, dried apricots, dried pears and other shrinking fruits have also followed the sky.

Road trip and the car refrigerator.

In a blink of an eye, with the continuous improvement of the people's economic level in China, the number of private cars increased at the beginning of the 20th century, which led many white-collar workers to travel to road trip. Due to the increase of private cars, potential go on road trip enthusiasts have changed from a few "patents" to the best choice for most China people to travel.

According to statistics, at the end of 20 15, the tourism consumption in China was 4.3 billion person-times, including 2.35 billion person-times in road trip, which was close to 60% of the total. According to the forecast of National Tourism Administration and relevant ministries, by 2020, the number of tourists in China will exceed 8 billion, and the proportion of tourists in go on road trip will increase from 60% to 80%. In other words, by 2020, there may be nearly 6 billion road trip tourists in China.

The first problem faced by this group of nearly 6 billion people in go on road travel is how to carry the necessary food for self-driving travel.

You know, with the popularization trend of road travel, people who love cross-country self-driving have improved their self-driving quality-from simply going to the "destination" to enjoying the pleasant time on the way. This demand is essentially the pursuit of high-quality self-driving life, in which the car refrigerator plays an extremely important role.

Car refrigerator

In the past, there was no real grounding gas in the car refrigerator. Even a few years ago, the car refrigerator was contacted by the owner in the form of "luxury car assembly". Nowadays, the rear-mounted car refrigerator not only improves the performance and expands the capacity, but also can adapt to almost all car dealers.

Such as trucks, such as RVs, such as off-road vehicles or ordinary private cars, and so on …

Automobile pre-installed refrigerator

This undoubtedly greatly meets the needs of this part of the population in go on road trip, and requires a high quality of life in driving.

Give a cross-country chestnut:

Heroes' Club is a cross-country activity organized by the cross-country E family. It was held for the first time in 2006, when it was jointly held by cross-country E and Alxa League in Inner Mongolia, with 20 1 1. Since 20 1 1, the cross-country E-Family Hero Club has permanently settled in Alashan League and become the Alashan Hero Club.

Alashan desert (Ala? Mountain? Desert? )? It is the southernmost tip of Gobi Desert, located at the bottom of Yine Basin in north-central China.

Cross-country nature in desert area is breathtaking. In this place, if you open your mouth to talk, you will be accidentally blown into the sand by the strong wind. What can organizers and contestants do during the break? Needless to say, tents, but without water and internet, the organizers and contestants of the Heroes' Club can't seem to do anything except drink a few bottles of hot water.

Alxa League of Legends

20 17 Alashan heroes' meeting, 25 off-road vehicle teams went to Alashan for off-road vehicle competition. Inder? B) lead 10 off-road vehicle team to participate in the activity, and also provide many refrigerators for the whole activity organized by off-road E-family.

This means that this time, the participants of the Alashan Heroes' Club will have the opportunity to enjoy something that humans rarely do for thousands of years-in the scorching desert, everyone can enjoy walking in the shadows while drinking frozen sweet water and eating iced watermelons.

"It's hard for you to believe that although humans have conquered the desert for many years, we people have long taken it seriously, but when you are really deep in the desert, when the sun is shining, when you are hot and thirsty, how happy you are to eat an iced watermelon, drink a mouthful of frozen sweet water and even eat a popsicle in the desert!"

at present

Today's car refrigerators are not the same. It has adapted to the development of the times and the rhythm of people's pursuit of high-quality life, and gradually stepped down from a noble and luxurious position, and gradually became a "mobile refrigerator" within reach of every go on road trip person.

When Goethe's statement that "one travels not to reach the destination, but to enjoy all kinds of fun during the journey" gradually becomes a knowledge, traveling on the road, as an increasingly common way of consumption upgrading, will surely become the main lifestyle of urban white-collar elites in the future, and car refrigerators will surely play an important role in high-quality traveling on the road in the future.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.