Editing Ice (section)

====Harvesting====
{{Main|Ice cutting|Ice trade}}
There were thriving industries in 16th–17th century England whereby low-lying areas along the [[Thames Estuary]] were flooded during the winter, and ice harvested in carts and stored inter-seasonally in insulated wooden houses as a provision to an icehouse often located in large country houses, and widely used to keep fish fresh when caught in distant waters. This was allegedly copied by an Englishman who had seen the same activity in China. Ice was imported into England from Norway on a considerable scale as early as 1823.<ref name=cne>{{Cite Collier's|wstitle=Ice}}</ref>

In the United States, the first cargo of ice was sent from New York City to [[Charleston, South Carolina]], in 1799,<ref name=cne/> and by the first half of the 19th century, ice harvesting had become a big business. [[Frederic Tudor]], who became known as the "Ice King", worked on developing better insulation products for long distance shipments of ice, especially to the tropics; this became known as the ice trade.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hutton |first=Mercedes |title=The icy side to Hong Kong history |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=23 January 2020 |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200122-the-icy-side-to-hong-kong-history |accessdate=23 January 2020 }}</ref>

[[File:Ice Harvesting on Lake St Clair Michigan circa 1905--photograph courtesy Detroit Publishing Company.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Harvesting ice on [[Lake St. Clair]] in [[Michigan]], c. 1905]]

Between 1812 and 1822, under [[Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh|Lloyd Hesketh Bamford Hesketh]]'s instruction, [[Gwrych Castle]] was built with 18 large towers, one of those towers is called the 'Ice Tower'. Its sole purpose was to store Ice.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/gwrych-castle-217018 | title=Gwrych Castle: The astonishing fantasy castle saved by the dreams and bravery of a 12-year-old boy | date=11 November 2020 }}</ref>

[[Trieste]] sent ice to [[Egypt]], [[Corfu]], and [[Zante]]; Switzerland, to France; and Germany sometimes was supplied from [[Bavaria]]n lakes.<ref name=cne/> From 1930s and up until 1994, the [[Hungarian Parliament]] building used ice harvested in the winter from [[Lake Balaton]] for air conditioning.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kay |first=Nathan |title=The secrets and symbols of Hungary's Parliament building |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=3 January 2019 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/secrets-of-the-hungarian-parliament-building/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317194908/https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/secrets-of-the-hungarian-parliament-building/index.html |archive-date=17 March 2019 }}</ref>

[[Ice house (building)|Ice house]]s were used to store ice formed in the winter, to make ice available all year long, and an early type of [[refrigerator]] known as an [[icebox]] was cooled using a block of ice placed inside it. Many cities had a regular ice [[Delivery (commerce)|delivery]] service during the summer. The advent of artificial refrigeration technology made the delivery of ice obsolete.<ref name="Prewitt2023" />

Ice is still harvested for [[List of ice and snow sculpture events|ice and snow sculpture events]]. For example, a [[swing saw]] is used to get ice for the [[Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival]] each year from the frozen surface of the [[Songhua River]].<ref name="coldestcity">{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/travel/ice-is-money-in-chinas-coldest-city-20081113-62yj.html|title=Ice is money in China's coldest city|date=13 November 2008|agency=AFP|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=26 December 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002152548/http://www.smh.com.au/travel/ice-is-money-in-chinas-coldest-city-20081113-62yj.html|archive-date=2 October 2009}}</ref>