We've seen that, right? And the ice houses.
Didn't know there were ice warehouses.
Didn't know there was an "ice trade," an industry. It was started by an American, Frederic Tudor. Ice was considered weird, once upon. Tudor had to convince people it was cool. He did. He sold it to his fellow New Englanders, the wealthy ones, as a luxury item, then to South Carolinians, then to Cubans. Sold it in Britain--Wenham Lake ice was Queen Victoria's favorite--India, China. He packed it in sawdust as insulation during shipping. Made a fortune. There were ice warehouses all along the Hudson. Infamous forces would destroy the warehouses of competitors. Came electrical refrigeration and went the ice trade. Now, we press a button on the fridge and voila. Amazing.
There is some cause and effect between the "invention" of ice and urbanization; it may be reverse causation but there is a link. The thinking for causation is that urbanization was inhibited by spoiled produce from the country until Tudor.
Thus the Ice Age. Cool.
