Richard Shotton

He finally, after years of failure, figured out how to make a compressor that can produce ice.

And the kind of funny but also sad part of this story is that Gorey thought when he would announce his invention to the world, the response would be,

you know, uproarious joy and gratitude, but instead he was met with cries of blasphemy.

People saying, how dare you create ice?

Man can't create ice, only God can create ice.

And Corey actually died relatively young and penniless with his reputation in tatters.

Yeah, all of this really happened kind of in the last 200 years.

So, I mean, there is evidence that people were mixing ice with, you know, alcoholic spirits, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

Tudor likely did it himself in Massachusetts.

But what really launched kind of the...

the idea of the classic American cocktail, happened in the 1820s when Tudor brought ice to New Orleans.

New Orleans was the first city that Tudor set his eyes on to become an ice city.

And that was partly because of the climate.

That was also partly because of where it was located, with access to ports for shipping.

But it was also because of the culture there.

There was so much happening.

It was this transformative moment that was going on in New Orleans at this time with people there from French, Creole, and Spain, and Africa.

This was in a time when musicians were getting more bold with their musical choices that would eventually give birth to jazz.

And so when he arrived there, he went to the bartenders and said, you know, I'm going to show you how to make cold drinks with ice.

And not only did the bartenders