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A different version of his cooling system was used when the president James A. Garfield was dying in the year 1881. The Naval engineers built a box filled with clothes that had been soaked in melted ice water. Then by allowing hot air to blow on the cloths it decreased the room temperature by 20 degrees Fahrenheit.  The problem the engineers ran into with this method was the same problem John had. It required enormous amounts of ice to keep the room cold continuously. Yet it was an important event in the history of air conditioning. It proved that Dr. Gorrie had the right idea, but was unable to capitalize on it. The first practical refrigeration system in 1854, patented in 1855, was built by James Harrison in Geelong, Australia. He had the Right idea about cooling and ice and was acknowledged.

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“Born on the Island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803, he spent his childhood in South Carolina. He received his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in Fairfield, New York.”

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He moved to apalachicola, florida in 1833. He was a resident physician in two hospitals and was active in community and various times he was a council member, President of Pensacola's Apalachicola Branch, Postmaster, Secretary of the Masonic Lodge, and was one of the founding vestrymen of Trinity Episcopal Church.

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Experiments with Artificial Cooling and somewhat Accomplishments

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Experiments with Artificial Cooling and somewhat Accomplishments

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Since it was necessary to transport ice by boat from the northern lakes, Gorrie experimented with making artificial ice. Gorrie gave up his medical practice after 1845 to pursue refrigeration products. On May 6, 1851, Gorrie was granted Patent No. 8080 for a machine to make ice. Original model of this machine and the articles that are scientific he wrote at Smithsonian Institution. In 1835, patents for "Apparatus and means for producing ice and in cooling fluids" had been granted in England and Scotland to American-born inventor Jacob Perkins, who became known as "the father of the refrigerator".

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Failed, Humiliated, and Financially Ruined

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Failed, Humiliated, and Financially Ruined

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Impoverished, Gorrie sought to raise money to manufacture his machine, but the venture failed when his partner died. Humiliated by criticism, financially ruined, and his health broken, Gorrie died in seclusion on June 29, 1855. He is buried in Magnolia Cemetery.