We take a lot of things for granted. Water, air, earth, sun, ice. Ice? Well perhaps you never heard of the man who invented ice? Today's story is about the Ice King (as he liked to be called). At the dawn of the nineteenth century, this notion seemed absurd to the New Englanders. Invent ice? When lakes, rivers and streams were frozen over? 

Frederick Tudor of Boston was known as the Ice King as during the early 19th century he shipped large blocks of ice from a Pond in New England to Martinique and other Caribbean islands.