Economic impact
Developed the ice-cooled refrigerator car in 1878, enabling year-round meat shipping and establishing Chicago as a center of the meatpacking industry.
Xcelerator · Person
Gustavus Swift
Founder of Swift & Company
Meatpacking & Industrial Development
Signal
- Region
- Chicago
- Industry
- Meatpacking & Industrial Development
- Source file
- profiles/chicago_profiles.md:173
- Status
- published