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Who built a refrigeration machine similar to Oliver Evansās design?
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The American physician John Gorrie built a refrigeration machine in 1844 that was similar to the design proposed by Oliver Evans in 1805. While Evans designed the first machine to use vapour instead of liquid, he never constructed it himself.1