1923 | Marine Resources
Marine Resources
Birdseye Seafoods opens on New York's White Street (see 1917). Although Clarence Birdseye did not invent quick freezing, his company is the first of its kind; he has received patents on the process he has developed with Wetmore Hodges, 36, a process unique in that it freezes foods in packages by pressing them between refrigerated metal plates. Birdsye has only $7 to spend on equipment, including an electric fan, ice, and salt; a friend has loaned him the corner of an ice house to carry on his experimentation, but without the means to gain public acceptance he is forced into bankruptcy (see General Seafoods, 1924).