Joseph Numero

Numero turned Jones's truck refrigeration unit into a business, creating the company whose equipment made long-distance refrigerated trucking routine. A Minneapolis entrepreneur, he ran Cinema Supplies, where Jones worked on sound equipment. After a golfing friend lost a truckload of poultry to summer heat, Numero pushed for a reliable truck cooling unit, and he and Jones formed the U.S. Thermo Control Company, later Thermo King. In 1991, after both men had died, they were awarded the National Medal of Technology. Brands shipping food, supplements, or medicines in reefer trailers rely on the industry his company started.

• Refrigerated TrailerReeferTrailer with its own refrigeration unit
• Cold Chain ShippingShipping goods that must stay cold
• Temperature-Controlled StorageStorage kept in a set temperature range

• Frederick McKinley Jones1893–1961 · Inventor of truck refrigeration, Thermo King

• Refrigerated Railcar1878 · Swift ships chilled beef by rail in iced cars

1. Joseph A. Numero (National Science and Technology Medals Foundation) nationalmedals.org
2. Thermo King (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org
3. History of Thermo King Corporation (FundingUniverse) fundinguniverse.com