Carl von Linde

Background

A German engineer and professor in Munich, and founder of the firm that became Linde.

Contribution

Developed efficient vapor-compression refrigeration (1870s) and later industrial air liquefaction, turning refrigeration into a practical industrial technology.

Associated inventions

• Mechanical Refrigeration

Collaborators & contemporaries

• John Gorrie

Sources & further reading

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• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia
• Deutsches Museum — collections & researchDeutsches Museum · Museum

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