Records of the Patent and Trademark Office. 1836 - 1978. Selected Patent Files. 1840 - 2005. 1773080 - Animal Food Product - Clarence Birdseye

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Records of the Patent and Trademark Office. 1836 - 1978. Selected Patent Files. 1840 - 2005. 1773080 - Animal Food Product - Clarence Birdseye

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Birdseye, Clarence, 1886-1956

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Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956) revolutionized the frozen food industry with his invention of the "quick-freeze machine" in 1925. Birdseye attended Amherst College from 1906 to 1908. In 1912 he took a job as a fur trader in the arctic Peninsula of Labrador in Canada, traveling by dogsled buying and collecting furs until January 1916. By observing the Eskimos in Labrador, Birdseye discovered the quick-freeze process that would prove so successful. The 13 handwritten field journals in this collectio...