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Why Do Refrigerators Use Magnetic Doors?Because Many Children Died
https://www.gamingdeputy.com/why-do-refrigerators-use-magnetic-doorsbecause-many-children-died/
Everyone knows that the refrigerator door uses only a magnetic strip instead of a mechanical lock. Have you ever wondered why?
In 1913, American Fred W. Wolf invented the first domestic refrigerator. In 1918, William C. Durant introduced a self-contained compressor into household refrigerators,
which started the mass production and popularization of household refrigerators. In fact, the early refrigerators used mechanical latches, and they could only be opened and closed from the outside, and the inside could not be opened—food wouldn’t come out by itself, right?
But the problem is that Americans back then didn’t know what thrift was, let alone environmental protection. Old refrigerators would be discarded in the wild at will, and children often hid in them while playing hide-and-seek. It would be a tragedy if they were locked.
Statistics show that from January 1954 to June 1956, 54 children in the United States were trapped in household refrigerators, and 39 of them died unfortunately.After that, people were asked not to throw away old refrigerators at will, at least to remove the door latch. Oklahoma even legislated that the ice with the door latch
