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Christian Steenstrup With First GE Monitor-top Refrigerator
General Electric Company1937
Museum of Innovation & Science
Schenectady, United States
Christian Steenstrup, of General Electric Refrigerator Engineering Department, photographed with first commercial sample of GE refrigerator in his home in Schenectady, New York, 1937. Steenstrup developed the Monitor-top, the first hermetically sealed steel refrigerator. A Danish immigrant, Steenstrup, as a young toolmaker at GE, helped develop GE's employee suggestion system.
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- Title: Christian Steenstrup With First GE Monitor-top Refrigerator
- Creator: General Electric Company
- Date Created: 1937
- Location: Schenectady - Schenectady County - New York
- Physical Dimensions: 8 x 10
- Original Language: English
- Subject Keywords: Engineers; Inventors; Refrigerators; General Electric Company. Electric Refrigeration Department;
- Type: Photograph
- Publisher: General Electric Company
- Rights: This digital image may be used for educational uses. Please cite as miSci- Museum of Innovation & Science. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the images from miSci.
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