Today, 69 years ago, on October 9, 1956 (Calendar, September 6, 1956), Birdsey, the inventor of frozen foods, died. On October 9, 1956, Birdsey, the inventor of frozen foods, died at the age of 69. In 1923, American businessman Clarence Birdstein invented fast-freezing foods, making his name a family term and changing the way Americans lived. Birdsey invented his method of frozen foods after many years as a leather trader in Labrador. He discovered that frozen foods were well preserved in very low winter temperatures. So he experimented at home to commodify this method of packaging frozen foods. In 1924, he founded a company that sold frozen fish on the market, and four years later he patented the invention at a price of up to $220 million to the