Awards & Winners

Frederick McKinley Jones

Date of Birth 17-May-1893
Place of Birth Cincinnati
(United States of America, Ohio, Hamilton County, Area code 513)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frederick Jones
Profession Inventor, Engineer
Frederick McKinley Jones was an African American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement to the long-haul transportation of perishable goods.

Awards by Frederick McKinley Jones

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frederick McKinley Jones.

1991


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For their development of refrigeration technology for trucks, trailers, boxcars, ships and planes which revolutionized the preservation and distribution of food and other perishables; and for their development of a worldwide sales and service network.)