Refrigerated Steamship Cargo

Insulated holds and mechanical cooling for global shipment of meat, fruit, dairy, and fish.

Core metadata

ID: steamship_refrigerated_cargo
Era: Industrial
First known date: 1878 (year)
Region: Argentina to France
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

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Node sources

Dunedin: One of the first refrigerated ships (Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre, 2019, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: The Heritage Centre describes the 1878 Paraguay voyage as successfully delivering 5,500 frozen carcasses from Buenos Aires to Le Havre after earlier 1876 attempts had limited or failed results.

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 2
Average edge confidence: 70%
Prerequisite sources: 2
expert_inference: 2

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Steam Engine (steam_engine)	commercial_or_scaling_dependency	72%	expert_inference	Steam Engine supports manufacturing, deployment, commercialization, or operational scaling.	In Pursuit Of Power (Science Museum Group, 2012, museum) • Supports: edge
Industrial Refrigeration (industrial_refrigeration)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Industrial Refrigeration provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Refrigeration (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge Locator: Britannica ties industrial vapor-compression refrigeration to brewing and meat-packing before refrigerated cargo shipping scaled frozen meat logistics.

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