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The American inventor Oliver Evans, acclaimed as the “father of refrigeration,” designed the vaporized refrigeration machine in 1805. However, Jacob Perkins modified Evans’ original design, building the world’s first refrigerator in 1834 and filing the first legal patent for refrigeration using vapor compression. John Gorrie, an American doctor from Florida, invented the first mechanical refrigeration unit in 1841, based on Evans’ original invention to make ice in order to cool the air for yellow fever patients. Gorrie’s mechanical refrigeration unit was issued a patent in 1855. In 1913, refrigerators for home and domestic use were invented by Fred W. Wolf of Fort Wayne, Indiana with models consisting of a unit that was mounted on top of an ice box. A self-contained refrigerator, with a compressor on the bottom of the cabinet, was invented by Alfred Mellowes in 1916. Mellowes produced this refrigerator commercially but was bought out by William C. Durant in 1918, who started the Frigidaire Company in order to begin the first mass-production of refrigerators.