In 1846, a clever cook, Nancy Johnson of New York, invented a crude but easy-to-use hand-cranked ice cream maker. Sadly, she never patented the device, but hers was the basis for other freezers to ...

In 1843 New Yorker Nancy M. Johnson patented the first hand-cranked ice-cream maker. After turning the crank for about 45 minutes (which was less time than making it by hand), the ice cream was ready.

But Philadelphia’s own Nancy Johnson invented what’s known today as the modern ice cream maker, or “artificial freezer.” Three years later, Jacob Fussell would be the first to open an ice ...

An American woman, Nancy Johnson, helped the world to make ice cream at home. She invented the hand-cranked ice cream maker which wasn’t just a machine but a new beginning for ice cream ...

According to Bauer, a woman named Nancy Johnson created this ice-cream-making technology in the 1840s (though this White Mountain machine isn’t her exact design, even though it uses the same ...