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The first historical trace of the use of an icebox is from the times of the ancient Sumerians, described in the Tablet of Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, concerning the construction of an icebox in Terqa in 1780 BC. approximately. In ancient times up to the modern era the use of ice was however a luxury use, mostly to cool the drinks of the lords. In the wealthiest Roman baths it was used in the frigidarium. Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth patented a horse-drawn ice plow in 1825 which made mining in U.S. lakes easier and cheaper and gave a further boost to the global ice export industry which declined after 1930. with the advent of the mechanical domestic refrigerator. The first domestic refrigerators of the 1800s, in fact, were actually cabinets with insulating cavity that were regularly filled with a block of ice from iceboxes. Thanks to the mechanization and competition of the market, the cost of commercial ice dropped and it became accessible even to the less affluent sections of society. In a sense, the mass spread and success of the first ice refrigerator (icebox) gave impetus to the invention of the mechanical refrigerator.
Source: Wikipedia