The Ice Trade and the Northern Economy, 1840–1914

David, Rafael

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“…They did this largely because so much of their ice sales were on regular contract, and stored natural ice allowed flash surges in demand to be met, something that was beyond the production capacities of ice-making plants. 207 Among fishmongers, both wholesale and retail, it was found that artificial ice sometimes failed to preserve their fish stocks in the same condition as did natural ice. Salmon and haddocks, for example, boxed and stored under exactly similar conditions, using natural ice in one case and artificial in another, came out completely differently.…”

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Ice Blocks from Norway: The Importation of Natural Ice to Britain, circa 1870–1925

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Ice Blocks from Norway: The Importation of Natural Ice to Britain, circa 1870–1925

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“…Until the 1930s, the cost of producing and distributing it was outweighed by the benefits of preventing the deterioration of food. 5 Yet adding value was not enough to save it from decline. The ice industry has seen three phases: the "natural ice" period, industrial-scale mechanical ice production, and small local ice producers.…”

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“…6 The northeastern United States was a recognized source of ice, and there was a similar industry in the United Kingdom, but after outbreaks of typhoid fever were related to consumption of tainted ice, Norway became the premier exporter of ice to the United Kingdom as of 1900. 7 In the 1880s, new technology-steam-driven mechanical ice production-allowed the year-round manufacture of clean, pure ice which was the death knell of the natural river-or lake-ice industry. The end of the natural ice industry in the United Kingdom came with sea blockade during World War I and about the same time in the United States.…”

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Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

Duffy¹,

Ling²,

Westlund³

2017

Media Industries Journal

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Abstract:First cut from frozen lakes and later manufactured on an industrial scale, ice was, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, big business. This article uses the collapse of the ice manufacturing and distribution business in the early twentieth century as a lens through which to view the current situation among the newspaper industries of Western countries, particularly North America and Europe. Each industry involves the production and distribution of a commodity and a legacy technology that is superseded. The analogy is imperfect, but the alignments and the imperfections of

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“…F rom the mid-19 th century until the First World War, Norway was a major supplier of cold energy to western Europe, first and foremost to Britain (David 1995(David , 2000Freeman 2018). The coldness was contained in regular-sized blocks of freshwater ice, which teams of laborers cut and shifted from lakes or specially constructed ice dams.…”

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A frozen culture

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2023

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Between 1850 and 1914, Norway was a major supplier of natural ice to Britain and western Europe. The blocks of ice were kept across time and distance. The cold energy of ice was transferred as it melted in cabinets and boxes. The natural ice industry had a composite range of end consumers in restaurants, ocean liners, food industries and pelagic fish trawlers. At the same time, natural ice was also a production industry, based on methods for natural resource extraction. This article argues that while macro preconditions and structural outlines are generally understood, there has been little exploration of the social or technological processes by which it came to be a source of wealth (for a few) and employment (for thousands). It singes out for attention one entrepreneur, Johan Martin Dahll, who between 1850 and his death in 1877 was crucial in shaping the industry in a Norwegian context.

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The Ice Trade and the Northern Economy, 1840–1914

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Ice Blocks from Norway: The Importation of Natural Ice to Britain, circa 1870–1925

Ice Blocks from Norway: The Importation of Natural Ice to Britain, circa 1870–1925

Cold Comfort: Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Newspaper Industry from the Twentieth-Century Ice Industry

A frozen culture

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