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Jacob Perkins (July 9, 1766 – July 30, 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer, and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon became known for a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually received twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is sometimes known as the father of the refrigerator. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1813 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819. [Wikipedia]
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