From: damarkley@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 3:00:19 PM UTC-5, RichD wrote:   
   > How did they make ice, in the days before electricity?    
   >    
   > And, did the inventors manage it empirically, without    
   > education in thermodynamic theory? I admit,    
   > without book learning, the compression/condensation/    
   > evaporation cycle would never occur to me, it’s    
   > far from intuitive.    
   >    
   > —    
   > Rich   
   Ice was made by mother nature and chopped from the surfaces of frozen lakes,   
   ponds and rivers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)