Clarence Frank Birdsey II ( Eng. Clarence Frank Birdseye II ; December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956 ) - American inventor, entrepreneur and naturalist, is considered the author of the idea of freezing in the modern food industry.
| Clarence Beardsay | |
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| Clarence Frank Birdseye II | |
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| Birth name | Clarence Frank Byrdsey |
| Date of Birth | December 9, 1886 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | October 7, 1956 (69 years) |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | inventor |
| Father | Clarence Frank Birdseye I |
| Mother | Ada jane underwood |
| Awards and prizes | National Hall of Fame of US inventors |
Biography
Born in Brooklyn on December 9, 1886, he was the sixth of nine children by Clarence Frank Beersday I and Ada Jane Underwood. He studied at Amherst College in Massachusetts , which did not finish due to financial difficulties [1] .
Birdsei began his career as a taxidermist [2] [3] [4] .
From 1912 to 1915, he was in Newfoundland , where he became interested in preserving food through freezing, especially fast freezing. At −40 ° C, he found that the fish he caught froze almost instantly, and when thawed out, it tasted fresh. He realized that frozen seafood sold in New York was of a lower quality freeze than this fish.
In 1922, Beardsay conducted a series of experiments, and then founded his own company, Birdseye Seafoods Inc. In 1924, his company went bankrupt due to the lack of consumer interest. In the same year, he developed a completely new process of rapid freezing and created a new company: General Corporation Seafood.
Birdseye died on October 7, 1956 from a heart attack. He was 69 years old [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Kurlansky, Mark. Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. - 1st ed. - New York: Doubleday, 2012. - ISBN 0385527055 .
- ↑ BBC News - Are people snobbish about frozen food?
- ↑ The History of Frozen Foods - Clarence Birdseye .
- ↑ Who Made America? | Innovators | Clarence Birdseye .
- Rence Clarence Birdseye Is Dead at 69. Inventor of Frozen-Food Process. Developed Method for Quick Freezing and Also Devised System for Dehydrating. , New York Times (October 9, 1956). The date of the appeal was July 16, 2008. “It was the counting of the living room of the Gramercy Park Hotel . He was 69 years old. ”
Literature
- Clarence Birdseye - Food Engineering. September 2003. p. 66
- About.com biography
- History of Rocky Mountain Labs, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease [1]
- Birdseye, Clarence & Eleanor G. (1951). Growing Woodland Plants . New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
- Mark Kurlansky. Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. - Doubleday, 2012. - P. 272. - ISBN 978-0385527057 .
Links
- Clarence Birdseye Journals, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
- Clarence Birdseye biography at Birds Eye Foods web site
- List of IFT Award winners (inaccessible link from 14-03-2014 [1970 days] - history , copy )
- Byrdsay, Clarence (English) on the site Find a Grave