The GE Monitor Top Refrigerator-- Part 1: It Is Not an Ironclad

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

15 Military Weapons That Changed the World-- Part 1

I'd have to call them Weapons, though.

From the May 24, 2020, Hot Cars site"15 Military Vehicles That Changed the World. Go to the site to find more information.  I'm just listing here.

15.  Wright Military Flyer  (airplane)

14.  British Mark I Tank  (WWI)

13.  French Voisin III  (WW I airplane)  First true bomber

12.  USS Monitor

11.  HMS Dreadnaught  (WW I)

10.  HMS Hermes  (First designed aircraft carrier)

9.  U-boat  (WW I and WW II)

--Cooter

Brooklyn Navy Yard in Greenport, NY City: Famous U.S. Warships Built Here

From the May 2017, Smithsonian "Wet and Wild" by Tony Perrottet.

New York City is taking advantage of its famed waterfront.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard opened in 1801 and was one of the first naval repair facilities in the United States.

It was here that the USS Monitor was clad with iron plate in the Civil War.  The USS Maine was also built here, only to be sunk in Havana Harbor.  So were the USS Arizona which went down in Pearl Harbor, and the USS Missouri, upon whose deck the Japanese surrendered in 1945.

At its height in World War II, over 70,000 people worked on the sprawling 300-acre site.  It was the headquarters of the North Atlantic Fleet during World War II.  After its closure in 1966, the city bought the yard and reopened it as an industrial park

--GreGen

A Look at Some of Hampton Roads' Most Famous Ships-- Part 1: USS Chesapeake

From the January 10, 2014, Stars and Stripes by Mark St. John Erickson of the Hampton Roads Daily Press.  Like I said before, he sure gets the good articles to write.

Two of the most famous shipyards are located in Hampton Roads, Virginia, area: Norfolk Naval Shipyard which launched its first U.S. Navy warship in 1799 and the Newport News Shipbuilding which was founded in 1886.

In 1798, the USS Chesapeake, the fourth and smallest of the original "Super Frigates."  (The USS Constitution was one of them.)  The ship and country were greatly embarrassed when it was boarded by the HMS Shannon off of Cape Henry and the famous "Don't Give Up the Ship" quote came about because of it.

The CSS Virginia, built on the hull of the USS Merimack and fought the famous Battle of Hampton Roads against the USS Monitor.

--Cooter