Clarence Birdseye

Clarence Birdseye (born 9 December 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, † October 7, 1956 in Manhattan, New York), biologist, introduced in the late 1920s the first plate freezers (see freezing method ) for industrial refrigeration before, in which the frozen is placed between a refrigerant -carrying metal plates that rise hydraulically up to the close contact with the goods. Birdseye looked at this method of conservation among the Inuit from the cold air hang their fish in the -40 ° C to freeze.

With an investment of $ 7 in 1923, he built the first machine for deep freezing. 1929 The Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation and The Postum Company ( later General Foods Corporation) bought him from the patent and the trademark rights for 22 million dollars.

On March 6, 1930 in the U.S., the first frozen vegetables under the name "Birds Eye Frosted Foods " available on the market. Clarence Birdseye is the inventor of frozen food.

On October 7, 1956, he died of a heart attack.