Recently I posted about this refrigerator in my Running the Blockade: Civil War Navy blog as I had come across the name "Monitor Refrigerator" in an article and, hey, the Monitor was a Civil War shop that really turned naval architecture on its ear.
It had the name because the compressor at the top of it resembled the gun turret of the USS Monitor. When I found a picture of it, I had to agree with the name.
So, here is some more information about this particular kind of refrigerator.
From the Antique Appliances.com site.
The GE Monitor top refrigerator is perhaps the most recognizable of vintage refrigerators. Built on the principal of a French industrialist concept for a hermetically sealed refrigeration system, the first models available to the general public, for residential use, were introduced in 1927.
General Electric committed $18 million to the manufacturing of these units and another million to advertise them to the public.
--CootFrig
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