Harvesting the frozen ponds of New England
The struggle to ship ice to the tropics
Ice around the world
The legacy and the demise of natural ice
Which material did ice harvesters use to insulate the walls of early 19th-century icehouses?
hank Play The Little Ice King game to experience how Frederic Tudor harvested frozen New England ponds and shipped ice to the world.
hank Explore the design of the horse-drawn ice plow, the key invention that allowed Frederic Tudor to harvest and export pond ice globally.
Which Massachusetts body of water, also famous for Henry David Thoreau's writing, was a major source of Frederic Tudor's harvested ice?
hank New England Ice Harvesting
Shipping New England's frozen lakes away, to put some ice in a glass in Bombay!
hank See how workers harvested frozen ponds in this infographic detailing the grueling labor behind Frederic Tudor's historic ice trade.
What was the primary role of 'ice pikes' during the winter harvest on New England ponds?
In 1825, inventor Nathaniel Wyeth revolutionized the ice industry by designing which horse-drawn tool?
Walden Pond ice: Philosopher Henry David Thoreau watched Tudor's crew harvest 10,000 tons of ice from Walden Pond in 1846, writing that the pond's water was traveling to India.
Before Nathaniel Wyeth's 1825 invention, how much did it cost to harvest a ton of natural winter ice?
A tool equipped with blades used to cut ice on frozen bodies of water. In 1825, Nathaniel Wyeth invented this horse-drawn device to cut blocks on Frederic Tudor's Massachusetts ponds.