Machine ice making company - Machine ice making company

...It was around this time that Kishida Ginko founded the Yokohama Himuro Company. Artificial ice began to spread when the Tokyo Ice Company was established in 1883 and the Mechanical Ice Company in 1899, with the latter producing 50 tons per day at its factory in Narihirabashi, Honsho. However, experimental artificial ice production had already been carried out in 1870. In May of that year, Fukuzawa Yukichi contracted typhus and suffered from a high fever that continued for days on end. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "mechanical ice-making companies" is listed below.

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…岸田吟香が横浜氷室商会を興したのも，そのころである。　人造氷は，83年に東京製氷会社，99年に機械製氷会社が設立され，ことに後者が本所業平橋（なりひらばし）の工場で日産50tを生産するに及んで普及し始めたが，実験的な人工製氷はすでに1870年に行われていた。その年5月，福沢諭吉は発疹チフスにかかり連日高熱が続いていた。…

※「機械製氷会社」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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