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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.50,0:00:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kind of air that comes off rotting vegetation,\Nheat and stagnant water.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.98,0:00:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty fashionable at the time, this rot.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.62,0:00:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody thought all disease was due to it,\Nwhich is why our story
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.20,0:00:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brings us to this pleasant little holidy spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.47,0:00:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beause if you ever wanted to see miles-and-miles\Nof "hot rot"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.16,0:00:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.25,0:00:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the Florida swamps.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.88,0:00:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♪ lurking, danger ♪]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.55,0:00:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time the meat-packers in London\Nwere going bananas about what bad air
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.89,0:00:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was doing to their success rate,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.02,0:00:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody else, here in Florida,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.56,0:00:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was doing just the same thing\Nfor just the same reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.78,0:00:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only his success rate depended on keeping\N{\i1}people{\i0} healthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.64,0:00:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a doctor, fellow called "John Gorrie"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.69,0:00:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in 1833 he had come to a small cotton port\Non the Gulf of Mexico called "Apalachicola"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.53,0:01:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surrounded on 3 sides
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.22,0:01:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by this creepy stuff.... full of alligators,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.55,0:01:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and snakes that drop from the trees\Nand other goodies
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.17,0:01:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}including{\i0} malaria
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.47,0:01:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which was John Gorrie's problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.06,0:01:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, every year people went down with it\Nby the hundreds.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.64,0:01:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Gorrie reckoned, well just like everybody else,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.19,0:01:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that malaria was caused by and invisible -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.33,0:01:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disease-ridden gas, seeping in from these swamps
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.64,0:01:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made,\Njust like the air in the London cans,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.57,0:01:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a mixture of:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.20,0:01:30.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1. rotting vegetation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.57,0:01:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2. stagnant water
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.88,0:01:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3. and heat.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.88,0:01:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.70,0:01:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when, not long after he got back to Apalachicola,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.70,0:01:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gorrie became:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.20,0:01:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,• Bank manager
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.99,0:01:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,• Post master
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.24,0:01:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,• Chief of the Masonic Lodge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.60,0:01:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,• City treasurer and Mayor,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.01,0:01:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he thought he'd try to stamp the disease out by\Ndraining wetlands, filling in ponds, building in {\i1}brick{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.23,0:01:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of wood, that would rot.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.51,0:01:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.92,0:01:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody still got malaria.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.87,0:02:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, defeated by the rotting muck and the stagnant water,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.48,0:02:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gorrie turned to the one ingredient that he reckoned\N{\i1}could{\i0} control:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.65,0:02:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.74,0:02:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, back in those days
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.27,0:02:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were regular shipments of ice
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.02,0:02:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down here to the southern states from Boston,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.90,0:02:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they used to hack it out of the\Nfrozen rivers and ponds during the winter
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.66,0:02:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and store it for shipment right through the summer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.97,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Went as far as "Calcutta"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Gorrie reckoned that since people didn't get malaria\Nin the winter,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.39,0:02:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he'd crack the problem if he could use the ice\Nto help his patients "keep their cool"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.25,0:02:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right through the summer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.44,0:02:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he didn't know
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.70,0:02:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what he couldn't have known in 1837 because nobody\Nhad discovered that malaria was caused by an insect
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.83,0:02:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.25,0:02:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was surrounded by a giant "Mosquito Menagerie"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.24,0:02:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♪ jazz, notes rolling up and down quickly ♪]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.69,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as Gorrie was concerned,\Nthe billions of mosquitos here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were... just an annoyance.\N[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.41,0:03:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.41,0:03:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫ ♫ faster ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.34,0:03:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Gorrie set up a {\i1}chilly{\i0} fever-room\N[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.96,0:03:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you could very easily have caught yourself a cold!\N[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.70,0:03:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♪ stops ♪]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.70,0:03:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.75,0:03:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for a few years Apalachicola murmured to the\Nchattering teeth of Gorrie's victims... ☺I mean patients!☺,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.97,0:03:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he proceeded his grand design.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.60,0:03:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His idea was quite brilliant,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.33,0:03:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course, totally wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.03,0:03:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Gorrie was indefatigable\Nin bending the ear of any visitors on the subject.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.25,0:03:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me too so:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.80,0:03:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hanging bucket is filled with ice.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.25,0:03:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Above, a pipe bringing in air from outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.30,0:03:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ice chills the air,\Nand if you block up the fire place,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.61,0:03:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only place the air can get out is {\i1}down{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.56,0:03:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a pipe
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.88,0:03:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the skirting board.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.88,0:03:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.46,0:03:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alas, poor Gorrie, he {\i1}so-nearly{\i0} got it right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.49,0:04:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gauze curtains help, he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.03,0:04:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause they keep out the vapours\Nthat bring in the disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.03,0:04:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.89,0:04:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His only problem, he thought, was\Na way of getting cheap ice!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.61,0:04:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometime after 1845, he found it:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.30,0:04:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With this machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.61,0:04:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May not look much,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.56,0:04:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you've got a cool house on a hot day,\Nthank that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.94,0:04:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gorrie built it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.20,0:04:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using an idea that had been around for some time,\Nbut that nobody had put into practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.42,0:04:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea was that, if you compress air, it gets hot.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.06,0:04:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you then let it expand, it gets cold
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.77,0:04:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it draws heat from it's surroundings.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.31,0:04:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.27,0:04:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a steam-driven wheel,\Ndriving a force-pump that compresses the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.44,0:04:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here comes the compressed air,\Nthrough that coil, in a bath of cold water,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.39,0:04:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into this chamber, where it expands.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.16,0:04:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as it expands, it gets very cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.97,0:04:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, the cold air then comes up through tubes\Nin this container, which is full of brine,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.70,0:04:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the cold air draws heat from the brine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.78,0:04:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now on every cycle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.33,0:05:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the air draws heat from the brine until the brine\Nis the same temperature as the cold air.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.10,0:05:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from then on,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.41,0:05:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the air comes out of the top here,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.41,0:05:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.24,0:05:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Air conditioning"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.64,0:05:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Invented by a man\N*very few* people have ever heard of.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.81,0:05:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean had you?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.69,0:05:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One more trick:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.31,0:05:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you run the cold air tube up here
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.58,0:05:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a resevoir of water, the cold air\Nchills the water down.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.67,0:05:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the chilled water drips down into a container\Nwhich is immersed
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.49,0:05:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the super-cooled brine,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.89,0:05:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that causes it to make something that looked as if\Nit was gonna make John Gorrie a very rich man,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.84,0:05:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a very hot climate:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.61,0:05:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ice.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.75,0:05:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♪ La Marseillaise ♪]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.81,0:05:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On Bastille day, 1850,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.13,0:05:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gorrie made his invention public.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.53,0:06:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The occasion was a boozie get-together\Nin the home of Apalachicola's French consort
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.77,0:06:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was hold a little "soirée"\Nin honor of the anniversary of the French revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.25,0:06:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with more French red wine and French champain\Nthan you could shake a stick at!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.80,0:06:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, unfortunately the iceboat from Boston\Nhadn't come.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.11,0:06:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And snide remarks were passed about\Nwhat a social gaff it was
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.00,0:06:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a {\i1}Frenchman{\i0} to offer warm champain!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.77,0:06:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[snide remarks being made]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.22,0:06:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In spite of the snickering however,\Nthe host displayed the symptoms of a man
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.81,0:06:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}utterly{\i0} confident of his savoir faire.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.81,0:06:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.36,0:06:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, our hero had previously shown him\Nhis magic machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.22,0:06:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And both men were looking forward\Nto their little moment of triumph.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.30,0:06:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was, sad to say,\Nto be Gorrie's {\i1}only{\i0} moment of triumph.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.25,0:06:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[clapping]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.56,0:06:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♪ fairground ♪]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.74,0:07:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was at the port of New Orleans in 1869,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.28,0:07:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,14 years after Gorrie had died,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.41,0:07:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broken by his failure to get any backing\Nfor his machine,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.41,0:07:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is idea suddenly turned up again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.60,0:07:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the end of a steamboat race,\Nalong the coast from Texas.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.50,0:07:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The winner,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.70,0:07:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the good ship "Agnes",
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.30,0:07:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had beaten the other boat\Nwith a cargo of chilled beef.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.97,0:07:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first in history, and long-since forgotten.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.47,0:07:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.46,0:07:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here we are on the New Orleans waterfront\Nin the summer of 1869
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.41,0:07:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.55,0:07:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles of Burgundy got clobbered by Swiss pikemen\Nwho then made infantry fashionable
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.96,0:07:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because the armies got so big,\NNapolean desperately needed provisions for them,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.22,0:07:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Appert invented preserved food
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.91,0:07:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which Donkin put in cans\Nbecause his paper-making venture failed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.66,0:07:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the rot that spoiled the meat and also\Nmaybe gave people malaria
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.75,0:07:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which Gorrie tried curing with cold air\Nthat chilled the beef
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.88,0:07:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Agnes bought\Nfor the great New Orleans Beef race.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.16,0:07:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uhh, remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.16,0:08:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♪ triumphant, cowboy ♪]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.16,0:08:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.16,0:08:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫ ♫ ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.16,0:08:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[crowd cheering]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.16,0:08:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[bravo! bravo!]\N[crowd cheering]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.16,0:08:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[crowd cheering]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.16,0:08:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[clapping]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.50,0:08:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Man: Ladies and gentlemen -]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.91,0:08:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[to the chilled beef!]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.00,0:08:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Crowd: to the chilled beef!]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.95,0:08:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, by an extraordinary coincidence,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.36,0:08:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the flower of New Orleans' upper-crust were\Ntucking into their beef,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.26,0:08:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fellow called "Mr. J. D. Postle"\Nwas chilling {\i1}his{\i0} first beef,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.17,0:08:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also with cold air.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.41,0:08:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only he was doing it in a place\Nwhere interest in the idea ran very high.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.62,0:09:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because Postle lived in Australia.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.22,0:09:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, unlike here in New Orleans,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.62,0:09:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these were the years\Nof the great British starvation scare.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.39,0:09:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the country became more industrialized\Nand the population shot up,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.61,0:09:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the government decided
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.70,0:09:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if some new way of getting lots of fresh meat\Nfrom Australia and New Zealand wasn't found,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.70,0:09:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well then the old country was finished!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.16,0:09:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurred on by patriotism,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.16,0:09:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,☺and profit☺
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.42,0:09:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Australians did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.42,0:09:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.25,0:09:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had a few horrendous goes at it first though.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.50,0:09:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1873 a ship left Melbourne with a cargo of meat\Ncovered in ice and salt.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.45,0:09:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh... It leaked.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.59,0:09:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In London the smell was described as:\N"Indescribable"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.95,0:09:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had another go in 1876 with a load of mutton\Nand a rather more sophisticated cooling system.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.44,0:09:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It leaked... before it left!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.34,0:09:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ended up in Sidney Harbour.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.08,0:09:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, in 1880
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.94,0:09:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "SS Strathleven" docked in London\Nwith a cargo frozen solid
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.03,0:09:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be sold here at Smithfield.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.12,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Britain was saved! ...