Kelvinator
Kelvinator is an American manufacturer of major household appliances, part of Sweden's Electrolux Group since 1986. Your name, the company of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who developed the concept of absolute zero, and after whom the Kelvin temperature scale was named. The name was for a company that is producing ice and refrigerators, as deemed fit.
History
Kelvinator was founded in 1914 in Detroit ( Michigan) by engineer Nathaniel Wales, who presented his idea of a practical electric refrigerator for household Edmund Copeland and Arnold Goss. The company started in 1916 as the name Kelvinator reverence for the British physicist Lord Kelvin.
1926 bought on society Leonard, a company that was founded in 1881. In 1928, George W. Mason in the management of Kelvinator. Under his leadership, the company reduced its production costs and increased until 1936 their market share.
On January 4, 1937, the Company merged with Nash Motors and renamed henceforth as the Nash - Kelvinator Corporation. This was part of a deal that brought Mason to the top of the merged company. 1952 bought one on the Altdorfer Bros. Company, the household washing machines manufactured under the brand name ABC.
As Nash Motors in 1954 merged with the Hudson Motor Car Co., Kelvinator became a division of the resulting group American Motors Corporation (AMC ). In the early 1950s Kelvinator introduced the first selbstentfrostenden built-in refrigerator. In the 1960s Kelvinator introduced the first refrigerator with decorative frame, which allowed the buyers to adjust the refrigerator door to the decor of their kitchen cabinets.
1968 Kelvinator was sold by AMC to White Consolidated Industries, which also ( which formerly belonged to GM), Gibson, Tappan and White- Westinghouse owned the trademark rights to Frigidaire.
In the early 1990s, the name of the Dublin (Ohio ) -based company in Frigidaire Company has been changed. The Frigidaire Company was acquired in 1986 by Electrolux and the Carrier Corporation purchased Kelvinator.
2005 Carrier sold the operation part Kelvinator at National Refrigeration in Honea Path ( South Carolina). There one continues to produce Kelvinator refrigerators.
The name Kelvinator also lives at Electrolux continued in the form of Kelvinator Commercial, which marketed eg cooling devices for the production of ice cream.
External links and sources
- History of Kelvinator (English)
- Appliances Manufacturer
- Company (United States)
- American Motors Corporation
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin