How did they make ice 100 years ago?

Question

How did they make ice 100 years ago?

Answer 1

They urinated on large flat areas.

Answer 2

they froze water.

Answer 3

They didn't.

EDIT: just wanted to say to "peace shalom pax" girl that salt actually MELTS ice and that's why they use it on the roads in winter.

It lowers the freezing point of water. It means it has to be colder than zero for ice to form.

Answer 4

coldblooded dinosaurs

Answer 5

out of trees.. howd they make the trees? don't ask me....

Answer 6

The answer about salt being used to make ice (which apparently has been deleted) is/was essentially correct. People used to make home-made ice cream and one of the necessary things was salt (kept in an outer compartment and not mixed with the cream) - which absorbed the heat from the cream allowing it to freeze.

Answer 7

Before refrigeration, ice was an extreme luxury in the summer months. In Europe, drinks were kept chilled (and ices made) by bottling liquids and cooling them in a solution of water and saltpeter, which produces relatively low temperatures.

In general, households which had ice had generally stored some from winter, packed in sawdust, in an ice house family's cut large blocks of ice from a pond with a huge saw and then pack and store them.

Those who didn't have the means or the wherewithal to store ice—which was most people—kept their food and drinks as cool as possible by storing them in window boxes, in spring houses where small streams ran through cool dark building, or even sometimes tied to lines under water in a lake or pond. As you can imagine, this wasn't terribly effective and many people died from eating spoiled food and/or dairy, most famously President Zachary Taylor who was said to have been brought down by a snack of cherries and cream eaten at an Independence Day celebration.

It wasn't until the latter part of the 19th century that refrigerated train cars came about as a means of shipping produce. The first of these were cooled by blocks of ice housed in insulating material (patented in 1867, I believe). Before that, all of the produce you could buy had to be grown locally. The invention of refrigerated train cars helped establish Chicago as the "hog butcher to the world" (because meat no longer had to be butchered on site and sold immediately) and California as a mass producer of "luxury" perishables (citrus fruits, peaches, avocados, etc.). The invention of refrigerated train cars made such an impact on society, that it is actually part of the U.S. History curriculum I teach to my 11th graders!

Answer 8

they didn't. they'd cut ice out of frozen ponds, lakes, etc. and store them in ice houses using some kind of insulation to preserve the ice. ice was a luxury in the south. it had to be shipped from the north during the winter

EDIT: My apologies, Aganoide. i'm not really an ice expert - i grew up in florida. i think you'll aprove of my changes.