Clarence Birdseye was born on December 9th, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York. Birdseye was an influential and innovative man. Clarence patented roughly 300 inventions on different frozen food inventions before his death in October of 1956. (1) Throughout his life Clarence changed the way American meals were prepared and eaten. His most famous invention that would change the world of the frozen food industry, was released to the world in 1925. The “Quick Freeze Machine”.
Clarence was the sixth of nine children in his family. Even when Clarence was young, he was immensely interested in botany and zoology. So when he was old enough, he enrolled at Amherst College, to become a biologist. But unfortunately for Birdseye by the time 1910 rolled around, he could no longer afford tuition(2); and his dream was put to a standstill. Clarence had no choice but to drop out of college, or plunge into profound amounts of debt.
After his premature dropout Birdseye became a government field naturalist for the U.S. Biological Survey. He held numerous diverse jobs until 1915, when he was hired for a new job. This job took him to Labrador, …show more content…
He knew that he could never freeze his foods like the Inuit did far up north, for the temperatures were cold enough that no real technology was needed to freeze the food. But Clarence need a new, fresh, and unique idea for freezing his food. Something that the world had never seen before. Something that would bring the greatest revolution in the food industry that the world had ever seen. How exactly Birdseye came up with his idea no one, with the obvious exception of Clarence Birdseye himself, may really know. But, in 1923, with an investment of $7 for an electric fan, buckets of brine, and cakes of ice, Clarence Birdseye invented and later perfected a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing under high pressure.
Clarence was the sixth of nine children in his family. Even when Clarence was young, he was immensely interested in botany and zoology. So when he was old enough, he enrolled at Amherst College, to become a biologist. But unfortunately for Birdseye by the time 1910 rolled around, he could no longer afford tuition(2); and his dream was put to a standstill. Clarence had no choice but to drop out of college, or plunge into profound amounts of debt.
After his premature dropout Birdseye became a government field naturalist for the U.S. Biological Survey. He held numerous diverse jobs until 1915, when he was hired for a new job. This job took him to Labrador, …show more content…
He knew that he could never freeze his foods like the Inuit did far up north, for the temperatures were cold enough that no real technology was needed to freeze the food. But Clarence need a new, fresh, and unique idea for freezing his food. Something that the world had never seen before. Something that would bring the greatest revolution in the food industry that the world had ever seen. How exactly Birdseye came up with his idea no one, with the obvious exception of Clarence Birdseye himself, may really know. But, in 1923, with an investment of $7 for an electric fan, buckets of brine, and cakes of ice, Clarence Birdseye invented and later perfected a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing under high pressure.