1. Frederick M. Jones is an American inventor, he held more than 60 patents
in a variety of fields. 2. Although refrigeration was his specialty. 3. In 1935,
he invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks. 4.
Later, he adapted the system to a variety of other carriers. 5. Including ships
and railway cars. 6. His invention eliminated the problem of food shortage it
changed America’s eating habits. 7. In addition, Jones developed an air-conditioning
unit for military field hospitals, a portable X-ray machine, and a refrigerator
for military field kitchens in World War I, after the war, he worked as a garage
mechanic and developed a self-starting gasoline motor. 8. In the late 1920s,
Jones designed a series of devices for the movie industry, he adapted silent
movie projectors to accommodate talking films and developed the box-office equipment.
9. That delivers tickets and automatically returns change. 10. Whether we realize
it or not, we owe a lot of our modern conveniences to inventor Frederick M.
Jones.