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	John Gorrie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Gorrie, (October 3, 1802 – June 29, 1855) physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian, is considered the father of (The process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes) refrigeration and (A system that keeps air cool and dry) air conditioning.
		He was born on the Island of (One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis) Nevis on October 3, 1802, and spent his childhood in (A state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies) South Carolina.
		With remarkable foresight and without knowledge of microbiology, he urged draining the swamps and sleeping under (Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals) mosquito netting to prevent disease.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_gorrie.htm (435 words)

	News Item : HVAC Forum: Remembering John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John was a pioneer, a visionary, a man who was ahead of his time, a servant of mankind whose work benefited the world.
		John was accepted at one of the nation's most respected medical schools, where he became a star student.
		John's work on contagious diseases brought him to within one intuitive step of monumental discoveries of a disease that's cause was eluding the greatest medical minds of the day.
	www.supplyht.com /CDA/ArticleInformation/news/news_item/0,5338,107414,00.html (1848 words)

	Gorrie's Fridge
		John Gorrie (1803 - 1855), an early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice, refrigeration, and air conditioning, was granted the first U.S. Patent for mechanical refrigeration in 1851.
		Gorrie, who served as Vice-Intendant in 1836, and Intendant (Mayor), in 1837, would be an effective advocate for the rest of his life for draining the swamps, clearing the weeds and maintaining clean food markets in the city.
		Gorrie married Caroline Frances Myrick Beman, of a Columbia, South Carolina family, the widowed proprietress of the Florida Hotel in Apalachicola, on May 8, 1838.
	www.phys.ufl.edu /~ihas/gorrie/fridge.htm (1565 words)

	Gorrie Elementary School, Tampa, Florida - A Blue Ribbon Award Winning School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		THE HISTORY OF John B. Gorrie Elementary School, the oldest operating elementary school in the state of Florida, was built in 1889 as Hyde Park Grammar School.
		In 1915, the name was changed to "Dr. John B. Gorrie Elementary School" to honor this man's great achievements in medical science and the invention of the first ice-making machine, which became the forerunner of the early compression refrigerator and the modern air conditioner.
		Over the years Gorrie's administration, students and teachers have strived to uphold the ideals set forth for them by the community, including the achievement of academic excellence and the preparation of students ready and able to take on life's challenges.
	www.sdhc.k12.fl.us /~gorrie/history.htm (515 words)

	Florida State Parks - JOHN GORRIE STATE MUSEUM
		Gorrie invented a machine that produced ice, laying the groundwork for modern refrigeration and air-conditioning.
		Gorrie died in 1855, unable to market his invention and witness the far-reaching effects of his discovery.
		A replica of Gorrie's ice-machine, built from the specifications of his 1851 patent, is on display in the museum.
	www.abfla.com /parks/JohnGorrie/johngorrie.html (596 words)

	Chilly Reception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1841, John Gorrie, a physician on Florida's west coast, noticed that outbreaks of yellow fever fell off in the winter, when the weather turned cooler.
		Gorrie suspected that his problems were Tudor's fault and that the "Ice King" had lead a smear campaign against him in order to protect his monopoly.
		In Gorrie's opinion, mechanical refrigeration "had been found in advance of the wants of the country." He was to die in 1855 as a result of a nervous collapse.
	www.kidscastle.si.edu /channels/history/articles/historyarticle25.html (408 words)

	Famous Floridians: Dr. John Gorrie
		John Gorrie is considered the father of air conditioning and refrigeration.
		During an outbreak of yellow fever, Gorrie became concerned for patients ill with the disease.
		By the time the young John Gorrie arrived in 1833, Apalachicola was already flourishing as the third largest port on the Gulf.
	fcit.usf.edu /florida/lessons/gorrie/gorrie.htm (505 words)

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		Gorrie was a pioneer in the food preservation industry.
		John Gorrie was born on the October 3, 1803 in Charleston, South Carolina.
		Gorrie continued to seek money to manufacture the machine, but his attempts finally failed when his partner died.
	www.southwest.cc.nc.us /bobh/HollandSamplePaper.htm (1550 words)

	John Gorrie Biography / Biography of John Gorrie Biography
		As a physician in Florida during the outbreak of the malaria epidemic, Gorrie set about on his mission to create artificial cooling as a matter of medical urgency to cure his patients of a disease he believed was caused by extreme heat and humidity.
		Gorrie was born on October 3, 1802 (or 1803).
		According to this possible scenario, Gorrie's mother, whose identity is unknown, fled from Spain to the West Indies, where she gave birth to Gorrie out of wedlock.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-gorrie (247 words)

	Photograph - Campsie N.S.W. Australia - Wurlitzer organ -opening concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Mayor, Councillor John Gorrie seated at the console of the Wulitzer Organ.
		John Parker, an organ builder from New Zealand, is seated at the console.
		Back row (left-right): John Rattray; Mrs Pam McMinn; Councillor John Gorrie (The Mayor); Ms Margaret Hall; Jack Lawson; Ian Davies (Patron of TOSA and the last organist to play the Wurlitzer in the Capitol Theatre and the first to play in the Orion Centre).
	www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au /photos/02800/02809ns.htm (532 words)

	Program Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is the story of John Gorrie, an obscure 19th Century Apalachicola, Florida physician who invented and patented the first ice machine - the forerunner of modern refrigeration and air conditioning.
		Noting that malaria and yellow fever epidemics abated with the onset of cool weather, Dr. Gorrie sought the cure for the fevers by means of ice or refrigeration.
		This film traces John Gorrie's invention and its "cool" and colossal impact on Florida and the South.
	www.monroe.k12.fl.us /ITV/Program_Descriptions/HowFloridaGotCool.htm (127 words)

	Florida Historical Marker Program @ Florida OCHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Description: Dr. John Gorrie (1803-1855) was an early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice, refrigeration, and air conditioning.
		Gorrie moved to Apalachicola in 1833 after the completion of his education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in Fairfield, New York.
		Gorrie was honored by the State of Florida with a statue of him placed in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /services/sites/markers/markers.cfm?ID=franklin (2105 words)

	John Gorrie -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop was born in Dreghorn, near Irvine.
		English astronomer John Frederick William Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, on March 7, 1792.
		John Herschel discovered 525 star clusters and nebulae not recorded by his father, and he made the first telescopic survey of the southern heavens.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037450?tocId=9037450 (611 words)

	John Gorrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Gorrie, physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian, is considered the father of refrigeration and air-conditioning.
		Pursuing the study of tropical diseases, Gorrie moved to Apalachicola, Florida, a large cotton market on the Gulf coast.
		As well as being resident physician at two hospitals, Gorrie was active in the community, but he resigned his positions after 1839.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/gorrie.cfm (250 words)

	Great Floridians @ Florida OCHP
		John Gorrie, born in Charleston, S.C. in 1803 and educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in Fairfield, New York, arrived in Apalachicola in 1833. After a severe yellow fever epidemic in the summer of 1841, he sought to effect a cure by introducing refrigeration.
		Gorrie also served as a physician of the Marine Hospital Service, Postmaster, president of the Apalachicola Branch of the Pensacola Bank, mayor of Apalachicola, secretary of the Masonic Lodge and founding vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church.
		A statue of Gorrie was placed in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In 1899, the Southern Ice Exchange in Apalachicola erected a monument to him.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /services/sites/floridians?section=a (688 words)

	Building Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The connection between mosquitoes and the disease had not yet been made, and Dr. John Gorrie believed the cause was atmospheric, that malaria was "a vapor" which came from the nearby swamps.
		Gorrie's ice machine consisted essentially of two force pumps (one for condensing and the other for rarifying air) and a receptacle for condensed air.
		Although Gorrie's invention successfully kept his patients cool, it would not be until after the advent of widespread electricity that air conditioning would become a popular and widely accepted invention.
	www.buildingindustryhawaii.com /045_air_conditioning.asp (3003 words)

	The News Herald: Gulf/Franklin Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A pioneer who devoted his talents to the benefit of mankind was Apalachicola's Dr. John Gorrie, who received a U.S. patent on May 6, l851 as the inventor of a ice machine.
		Apparently the only important dispute in Gorrie's life is whether he was born on the island of Nevis in the Carribean on October 3, 1802 or in Charleston, S.C., on October 3, 1803.
		Gorrie was made Apalachicola's Assistant Postmaster in l834, and shortly thereafter was made Postmaster.
	www.newsherald.com /archive/gulf/ns122498.htm (564 words)

	HVAC-Talk: Heating, Air & Refrigeration Discussion - Remembering John - by Matt Michel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John was accepted at one of the nation’s most prestigious medical schools, where he became a star student.
		Refrigeration is closely related to air conditioning and Johns second patent application was for the first air conditioner, described as, cooling and disinfecting ventilation.
		Yet, there is evidence that his machine was merely an improvement of John Gorries and that he designed it in full knowledge of Gorries work.
	hvac-talk.com /vbb/showthread.php?threadid=37181 (1583 words)

	Park Summary for Print - John Gorrie Museum State Park » Florida State Parks
		A young physician named John Gorrie moved to Apalachicola in the early 1800s when it was a prominent port of trade, commerce, and shipping in Florida.
		Gorrie served as postmaster, city treasurer, town councilman, and bank director.
		John Gorrie Museum State Park is located on 6th Street, one block east off U.S. 98 in Apalachicola.
	www.floridastateparks.org /johngorriemuseum/ParkSummary.cfm (655 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian, Dr. John Gorrie (1803-1855), who was an early pioneer in the development of manufactured ice, mechanical refrigeration and air-conditioning.
		As the result of experiments to lower the temperature of yellow fever patients by cooling hospital rooms, he designed and built an air-cooling apparatus that first compressed and cooled a gas by sending it through radiating coils, and then expanded it to lower the temperature further.
		Gorrie received his medical education in New York and moved to Apalachicola, Florida, to pursue the study of tropical diseases.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=342 (331 words)

	Refrigerants for the 21st Century: 2. Mechanical Refrigeration
		In 1851 Dr. John Gorrie, who lived in Charleston, SC, obtained a patent entitled, "An Apparatus for the Artificial Production of Ice in Tropical Climates".
		The invention was based on the well-known cooling effect produced by the evaporation of a liquid.
		Thus Gorrie evaporated water from a reservoir of water, insulated from outside heat.
	science.kennesaw.edu /~mhermes/fluoro/fluoro2.htm (526 words)

	John Gorrie SAC's Gallery Exhibitor - Society of Arts & Crafts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Gorrie was born November 6, 1937, in Birmingham, AL, and educated in area schools.
		He married Gail Erskine on June 1, 1970, and they have one son, John, who was born on March 13, 1975.
		John is retired and enjoys writing, painting and musical composition.
	www.sacsgallery.com /gorrie-ex.html (143 words)

	Apalachicola, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The framework was shipped by schooner from New York and assembled in Apalachicola with wooden pegs.
		In 1849, Apalachicola physician Dr. John Gorrie (1802-1855) discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration and patented an ice-machine in 1850, as the result of experiments to lower the temperatures of fever patients, laying the groundwork for modern refrigeration and air-conditioning.
		The city has a monument to him, and a replica of his ice machine is on display in the John Gorrie Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apalachicola,_Florida (704 words)

	AMERICAN MASON
		Gorrie's invention was the first U.S. patent for mechanical refrigeration.
		Gorrie is considered the father of refrigeration and air-conditioning: His statue appears in Statuary hall of the US Capitol.
		John Philip Sousa's march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was performed for the first time at Philadelphia, PA. The occasion was the unveiling of a statue of Bro.
	www.americanmason.com /calendar.ihtml (4981 words)

	newsherald.com: Local News: Gulf/Franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Gorrie, an Apalach physician who invented the prototype of modern air conditioning, is included in the exhibit, Stay Cool!
		Air Conditioning America, which runs through Jan. 2 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Gorrie's name is emblazoned on a star in the exhibit's "Walk of Fame" featuring people who made air conditioning possible.
		Gorrie invented an ice machine in an effort to help patients suffering from malaria and yellow fever, diseases which swept through swamps in the mid-1800's.
	www.newsherald.com /archive/gulf/kb060399.htm (288 words)

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		C: 12 Feb 1737 Father: William GORRIE Firth And Stenness, Orkney, Mother: Helen GORRIE Scotland Agnes Or Anna GORIE (F)...............
		GORRIE Stromness, Orkney, Scotland Mother: C._ A. Alexander GORIE (M)...................
		C: 22 Jul 1756 Father: John GORRY Kirkwall And St. Ola, Orkney, Mother: Barbara LAUGHTON Scotland John GORIE (M)........................
	www.cursiter.com /txt-exe-files/Gorrie.txt (3665 words)

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