Clarence Birdseye Research Paper

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says that the definition of honor is, “a showing of usually merited respect”, but the dictionary of Sydney Czanstkowski says that honor is earned and not given. Honor is shown to people who truly deserve it. A person who is honorable is someone with good morals, who is honest, and someone who contributes to the common good. To others honor may mean something totally different to them. Veterans, scientists, parents, and teachers can be honorable, it all just depends on your personal criteria of honor. Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor and entrepreneur born in Brooklyn, New York on December 9, 1886. Clarence’s parents, Ada Jane Underwood and Clarence Frank Birdseye, had nine kids and he was six of the nine. Clarence attended Amherst College in Massachusetts with interests in becoming a biologist, but only for a short period of time. In 1908 he dropped out of college due to the fact that his parents did not have the funds for him to continue. He went off to work for the USDA to become a taxidermist out west. His next occupation, would take him over to Labrador, Canada and the practice of …show more content…
relocated to Gloucester, Massachusetts and was now entitled the General Seafood Corporation in 1925. Time is money in any business so Clarence’s double belt freezer expedited the freezing process by using brine to chill two stainless steel belts that carried packaged fish. This invention marked the commencement of the frozen food industry. Due to his success with the double belt freezer, Clarence continued his work and invented even more ways to speed up the freezing process so that not only the small ice crystals would form, but also the cell membranes would not be incinerated in the process and the foods maximum flavor, texture, and color would be preserved. General Seafood Corporation moved on from just freezing seafood and experimented with chicken, meat, vegetables, and fruit ("History of Birds Eye