The History of Iceman - Why It Really Disappeared (Not Just the Fridge)

#BeforeMachines#ForgottenJobs#historydocumentary The iceman was an ice delivery man, the last link in a global trade that cut winter from frozen lakes and shipped it across oceans. This video traces the ice cutter and the iceman from Frederic Tudor’s failed 1806 voyage to the immigrant delivery routes that lasted into the 1980s, and asks what really ended the job. Along the way: Nathaniel Wyeth’s horse-drawn ice cutter, the dangers of harvesting ice, Thoreau watching laborers cut Walden Pond, a London shop that displayed ice like treasure, and the doctor who built an early ice machine and suspected the Ice King of ruining him. Legends are labeled as legends, and where sources disagree, I say so. The answer to “who killed the iceman” is slower and stranger than “the refrigerator.” Timestamps 0:00 – The Ice Card in the Window 1:04 – Who Killed the Iceman? 1:21 – Frederic Tudor's Ice Idea (1806) 3:03 – Tudor's Debts and Failures 3:51 – Wyeth Invents the Ice Cutter 4:55 – How Lake Ice Was Harvested 5:36 – The Dangers of Ice Cutting 6:11 – Ice Shipped to Calcutta 6:47 – Thoreau and Walden Pond 7:35 – Ice as a London Luxury 8:15 – A Day in the Life of the Iceman 10:17 – The Horse Legend 11:01 – John Gorrie's Ice Machine 11:58 – Why Gorrie Was Mocked 13:13 – Why Natural Ice Survived 14:53 – What Happened to the Ice Workers? 16:12 – Who Really Killed the Iceman? 17:07 – Ending: The 1931 Ice Card #whokilledtheiceman #icetradehistory #frederictudor #jobsthatdisappeared #naturalice#iceman