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A native of New York City , he became interested in the frozen preservation of food while working as a fur trader in Labrador , Canada in 1912 and 1916 , a job he had taken to help pay for his college education. He developed a commercially-viable quick-freezing process after observing Inuit quick-freezing fish in Canada. Birdseye eventually took out a series of patents on the quick-freezing process, in which foods are frozen so quickly that only small ice crystals can form and cell walls are not damaged. In 1929 he sold the Patent s to the Postum Company , which eventually became General Foods Corporation , and which founded the Birds Eye Frosted Food Company. The name remains a leading frozen-food brand, spelled as two words. In later years, Birdseye invented such products as an infrared heat lamp and a specialized harpoon to mark whales. EXTERNAL LINKS |