Tell me all about Fredrick McKinsey Jones.?

Question

I know he was born in Cincinatti, Ohio and he was a black inventor.Got anything about his family life?A wife or kids?

Answer 1

Frederick McKinley Jones was born in 1893. He was an orphan for most of his childhood. He left school when he was about 12 years old. When he was a teenager he worked as a car mechanic. He was so good at working on cars that he also built racing cars.
When World War 1 started, Jones joined the army. While he was a soldier he learnt about electricity and electronics. After the war, Jones worked on a farm mending all the farm machinery. Later he went to work for a company that made equipment for making films. One day in the early 1930’s Jones heard about a man who had lost a lot of money. This man owned a truck and used to transport food from farms to the markets and shops. In those days, the only way to keep food cool was to put huge big blocks of ice in the truck. This man had had to throw a whole truck full of chicken away because the ice had melted and the chicken had gone rotten. Frederick McKinley Jones decided to invent a machine that would keep the truck cool. In 1949 he received a patent for his air cooling system for trucks. During his lifetime, he invented 40 different types of refrigeration equipment.