Photo of Abbe Marcel Audiffren, French monk who designed first electric refrigerator prior to 1895. Second from left is A. Singrun, French manufacturer. A. Myers, left, and James J. Wood, right, Americans who arranged for GE to make Audiffren machine at Ft. Wayne, IN. Photo taken at Epinal, Vosges, France, August 1911. GE manufactured its first Audiffren refrigerator in Fort Wayne in 1911