Thermo King -Fred Jones: Jones was born in Covington, Kentucky, in the late 19th century. His father was a white Irishman and his mother was Black. At eight years old, his father took him to Cincinnati, Ohio’s St. Mary's Catholic Church rectory. There, he performed duties around the church in exchange for being fed and housed. Early on, Jones demonstrated an interest in mechanical workings.
After college, he developed a cooling process that could refrigerate a tractor-trailer, and in 1939 he and his partner, Joe Numero received a patent for the device which would soon be called a "Thermo King". Thermo King was critical in the birth of the frozen food industry.
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