A box or cupboard for storing food, cooled by strips of wetted fabric.
〈澳〉（通过条状湿布冷却的）食品冷藏柜
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There have been recent efforts to revive the use of Coolgardie safes in order to reduce the carbon footprint of our high energy input lifestyle.
Everyone knows that food storage was a problem for Aborigines and indeed for the colonists until the invention of the Coolgardie Safe and eventually the ice chest.
Their collections of bark huts, harvesting machines, Coolgardie safes, mining implements, and kitchen utensils conveyed, at least to modern eyes, a sense of the hardship and simplicity of pioneer life.
Australia was the source of the first refrigeration system, the Coolgardie safe.
One invention, the Coolgardie safe, depended on the evaporation of water from the surface of hessian, which was fixed to the frame of a kitchen cupboard.
Origin
1920s: named after Coolgardie, a town in Western Australia.