Frigidaire firsts
1915: Cabinet refrigerator
1929: Home food freezer
1931: Freon refrigerant
1937: Electric range
1938: Window air conditioner
1947: Agitator clothes washer
1952: Automatic refrigerator-freezer defroster
1965: Ice-making freezer
The Frigidaire brand would not have become part of General Motors had it not been for Billy Durant, who purchased the fledgling Guardian Frigerator Co. in 1915 from inventor Alfred Mellowes with $56,366.50 of his own money.
