As ice became a necessity, Nathaniel Wyeth working with Frederick Tudor, developed tools to make ice harvesting more efficient. Wyeth devised a horse-drawn ice plow that scored the ice into large, uniform grids, tripling the amount of ice harvested.
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As ice became a necessity, Nathaniel Wyeth working with Frederick Tudor, developed tools to make ice harvesting more efficient. Wyeth devised a horse-drawn ice plow that scored the ice into large, uniform grids, tripling the amount of ice harvested.