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Description
General Electric introduced this refrigerator, with a top-mounted icing unit and traditional-looking "furniture" legs, in 1927.
The American public soon dubbed it the "Monitor-Top," after the icing unit's resemblance to the turret on the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
The refrigerator, which retailed for about half the price of competing models, soon became GE's most successful product.
About This Item
- Title: Monitor-top refrigerator, ca. 1927
- Creator: General Electric Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1927
- Subject Date: circa 1927
- Media: Enameled metal, chrome, wood
- Local Code: 2004.090.0200
- Collection: Central Maine Power Company collection
- Object Type: Physical Object
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- Central Maine Power Company
- Cold storage
- Electric household appliances industry--Maine
- Refrigerators
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