Ice house (building)
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Ice houses are buildings used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator. Some were underground chambers, usually man-made, close to natural sources of winter ice such as freshwater lakes, but many were buildings with various types of insulation.
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See also
- Deep lake water cooling
- Frederic Tudor, the "Ice King"
- Ice
- Ice cutting
- Icehouse at Ambler's Texaco Gas Station
- Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES)
- Thermal energy storage
- Yakhchal
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