Clarence Birdseye filed for U.S. Patent No. 1,773,079 in 1927, receiving it in 1930. His process would rapidly freeze fish and vegetables so that "the pristine qualities and flavors of the ...

Clarence Birdseye's life as a taxidermist, fur trader, hunter, ... in 1927, he applied to patent his multiplate freezing machine. Large Scale Fast Freezing ...

In 1926, Clarence Birdseye bought a plant in Gloucester and set out to invent the frozen-food industry. ... It was patent 1,773,079, and it truly began the frozen-food industry.

Clarence Birdseye did not invent frozen food, but he is credited with creating the industry by developing a flash-freezing process that was commercially viable and produced frozen food people were … ...

Clarence Birdseye, meanwhile, kept busy. He developed an infrared heat lamp, a food-dehydration process, and a whaling harpoon. By the time of his death in 1956, he had nearly 300 patents to his name.

“Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man” (Doubleday), by Mark Kurlansky: The author who told us more than we ever thought there was to know about cod (“Cod: A Biography of the … ...

Most of us recognize the name Clarence Birdseye but few know the story of his adventurous life and massively productive career as an inventor and businessman. Leave it to Mark Kurlansky to bring ...

Besides establishing his frozen foods company, Birdseye was a prolific inventor who filed hundreds of patents for everything from an infrared heat lamps to a recoilless harpoon gun for whales.

Birdseye developed some 300 patents and inventions in his lifetime, Kurlansky said. ... Clarence Birdseye died on Oct. 7, 1956, at a home he kept at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan.