The Einstein refrigerator, also called the Einstein-Szilárd refrigerator, is an absorption refrigerator with no moving parts that operates at constant pressure and needs only a heat source to run. It was invented jointly in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leo Szilárd, who patented the design in the United States on November 11, 1930. The device uses three working fluids, water, ammonia and butane, and was itself a modification of an earlier three-fluid absorption design created by the Swedish engineers Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters, which was later commercialized by Electrolux.
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It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd, who patented it in the U.S. on November 11, 1930 (U.S. patent 1,781,541).
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The Einstein-Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no
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The Einstein-Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate.
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