Servel

Founded by Colonel William McCurdy to produce refrigerators and named National Electric Products Company, the company adapted and shortened the name "Servel" from their slogan, "Serving Electricity.

[2] The new model was available to consumers in 1926, and Servel quickly came to dominate the gas refrigerator market, its competition having all but disappeared within a few years.

[2] In 1939, Servel (then Electrolux-Servel) exhibited its residential gas air conditioner at the New York World's Fair.

[3] The exhibit, called "Magic Caves of Ice", was staged in the "Court of Flame", a building dedicated to promoting the gas industry.

In addition to cooking units and munitions, Servel built wings for the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.