The term refrigerator mother was coined around 1950 as a label for mothers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia.

His book, Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, attacked the refrigerator mother hypothesis directly.

Although Kanner was instrumental in framing the refrigerator mother theory, it was Bettelheim who facilitated its widespread acceptance by the public and the medical establishment cognoscenti in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1969, Kanner addressed the refrigerator mother issue at the first annual meeting of what is now the Autism Society of America, stating:

The refrigerator mother theory, widely discarded in the United States, still has some support in France and Europe and is largely believed in South Korea to be the cause of autism.

Although recent studies have indicated that maternal warmth, praise, and quality of relationship are associated with reductions of behavior problems in adolescents and adults with autism, and that maternal criticisms are associated with maladaptive behaviors and symptoms, these ideas are distinct from the refrigerator mother hypothesis.

According to Awake in the Dark, Corliss's mother takes all the movie posters where a quote of Corliss's appears on and pins them to her refrigerator.

Example EU energy label for a refrigerator.

For example, a label on a new refrigerator has installation and usage information: the label needs to be able to be removed cleanly and easily from the unit once installed.

His first thought was that Mrs. Kirby, in her mania for color, had dyed a cat and that cat had somehow managed to open the refrigerator door and climb in ; ;

Not that he had supposed, considering the evidence, that he was sharing this refrigerator with a member of the Beach Patrol.

The sweater was gone from the refrigerator, and in its place was a large plastic bag, full of wet pink clothes.

A truck trailer refrigerator operating from the waste heat of a tractor's diesel exhaust was demonstrated by NRG Solutions, Inc. NRG developed a hydronic ammonia gas heat exchanger and vaporizer, the two essential new, not commercially available components of a waste heat driven refrigerator.

After graduation he was employed as a refrigerator engineer, but his true love lay in engine design.

In " The Golden Eggs " it is revealed that Gale lived in Steed's flat ; her rent according to Steed was to keep the refrigerator well-stocked and to cook for him ( she appears to do neither ).

Not much later, the refrigerator was added as a standard item.

This is analogous to how the entropy of an object can be lowered by putting it in a refrigerator: The air outside the refrigerator's heat-exchanger warms up, gaining even more entropy than was lost by the object in the refrigerator.

In September 1984 Gotti was in an altercation with refrigerator mechanic Romual Piecyk, and was subsequently charged with assault and robbery.

" Bad Boy " Lastman was associated with many publicity stunts, including travelling to the Arctic in the 1960s to " sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo.

He was first tried for assaulting a refrigerator repairman over a parking space.

As part of the redesign it was decided to improve access, and the second version was designed to stand upright, like an old fashioned double-door refrigerator, about six feet tall ( roughly 1. 80 m ).

The machine was the size and shape of an old-fashioned double-door refrigerator, about six feet tall ( roughly 1. 80 meters ).

Until Carl von Linde invented the electric refrigerator in 1871, this was considered to be the largest refrigerator in Southern Germany.

In 1997, the first near room temperature proof of concept magnetic refrigerator was demonstrated by Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr. by the Iowa State University at Ames Laboratory.

Baltzar von Platen ( 1898 – 1984 ), together with Carl Munters, was the inventor of the gas absorption refrigerator in 1922 while they were both Swedish engineering students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Servel purchased rights to manufacture the refrigerator in 1925 and was the only U. S. manufacturer for many years.

To compensate, the cast developed visual cues for each other: Gleason patted his stomach when he forgot a line, while Meadows would glance at the refrigerator when someone else was supposed to retrieve something from it.

A freight station dock was constructed at Luxemburg in 1913 and upgraded three years later with a cement platform and refrigerator compartment facilitating trade to the area.

Around mid-century, the Zojirushi corporation, based in Kyoto, made breakthroughs in refrigerator designs, making refrigerators cheaper and more accessible for restaurant proprietors and the general public.

This was based on ideas from his conceptual ' Zip Up ' house, such as the use of standardised components based on refrigerator panels to make energy-efficient buildings.

A story in a later volume includes use of crude penicillin extract, based on real historical uses, and some culture samples found in a lab refrigerator at Grantville High School.

For refrigerating appliances, such as refrigerators, freezers, wine-storage appliances, and combined appliances, the labeling is specified in terms of an energy efficiency index EEI, which is an indication of the annual power consumption relative to a reference consumption that is based on the storage volume and the type of appliance ( refrigerator or freezer ).

Ah, yes -- his half of a refrigerator stood outside, on the `` curving veranda '' between Unit Number Three and Unit Number Four.

He took a yellow pill, only to choke on it, and went for the salami, only to find something alive in the refrigerator -- something pink and fuzzy.

He got a red pill and a beer and then, on impulse, transferred the rest of his salami to her side of the refrigerator and scrawled `` Be my guest '' on the wrapping.

* Absorption refrigerator, a refrigerator that runs on surplus heat rather than electricity

The refrigerator rule applies ( you can't stand in a fridge, the door always opens towards you )-If the hinges are on the left then its a left hand ( or left hung ) door.

An everyday example of ferromagnetism is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door.

An interesting feature peculiar to some of the Yersinia bacteria is the ability to not only survive but actively proliferate at temperatures as low as 1-4 degrees Celsius ( e. g., on cut salads and other food products in a refrigerator ).

An everyday example is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door.

His original experimental syrups were stored in his home refrigerator and used as topping on ice cream up till the death of his wife in 1985.

Guinea pigs that become familiar with their owner will whistle on the owner's approach ; they will also learn to whistle in response to the rustling of plastic bags or the opening of refrigerator doors, where their food is most commonly stored.

Ward then develops a new and better feature for his invention, which is on its way to becoming a great electric refrigerator for homes.

He finds the month July on it and then puts himself in a refrigerator so that he may see this month.

Many episodes concern breaches of intricate aspects of social conventions, such as the various details of tipping at restaurants, the obligation to " stop and chat " upon meeting an acquaintance, the allowed amount of caviar one may put on a cracker at a house party, whether a house guest needs the permission of the homeowner before taking a soft drink from the refrigerator.

The fat industry found that hydrogenated fats provided some special features to margarines, which, unlike butter, allowed margarine to be taken out of the refrigerator and immediately spread on a slice of bread.

From then on there were countless stories of success in the Industrial Design Zanussi, among other things, the creation of a set of " new characters ": the prototypes “ Zoe ” ( washing machine invented in 1989 ), “ Teo ” ( electric cooker ), and “ Oz ” refrigerator manufactured in 1998.

Her stories include the sky detaching from the horizon ; a mobile cemetery ; a ban on wave hunting ; and a refrigerator powered by earthworms.

* 1886: The first refrigerator cars on the Southern Pacific enter operation ; the loading of refrigerator cars with oranges, first performed at Los Angeles, California on February 14, contributed to an economic boom in the famous citrus industry of Southern California, by making deliveries of perishable fruits and vegetables to the eastern United States possible.

Evans designed a refrigeration machine which ran on vapor in 1805, so he is often called the inventor of the refrigerator, although he never built one.