What would the effects of earlier frozen meat exports on Australia be?

I recently finished the book "Napoleon’s Button's" which is a collection of tales about how various historical events had been affected by chemistry. One that I'd like to discuss in this thread is the evolution of refrigeration technology developed by James Harrison in Australia which is also discussed in this article. Basically the industry of frozen meat exports really took off in Australia and New Zealand after 1880 when the sailing ship Strathleven, equipped with a refrigeration system by Harrison, carried forty tons of frozen meat to London. An earlier attempt had been made in 1873 at this when the Norfolk's refrigeration system, also equipped by Harrison, failed. my question is what would have happened if the success of Harrison's systems had been moved from 1879 to 73 and thus sped up the events involved in meat exports by 7 years. What are the effects on Australia's, New Zealeand's, and Britians economies and politics?
 
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I recently finished the book "Napoleon’s Button's" which is a collection of tales about how various historical events had been affected by chemistry. One that I'd like to discuss in this thread is the evolution of refrigeration technology developed by James Harrison in Australia which is also discussed in this article. Basically the industry of frozen meat exports really took off in Australia and New Zealand after 1880 when the sailing ship Strathleven, equipped with a refrigeration system by Harrison, carried forty tons of frozen meat to London. An earlier attempt had been made in 1873 at this when the Norfolk's refrigeration system, also equipped by Harrison, failed. my question is what would have happened if the success of Harrison's systems had been moved from 1879 to 73 and thus sped up the events involved in meat exports by 7 years. What are the effects on Australia's, New Zealeand's, and Britians economies and politics?
Basivally, i dont think you can get it to happen.

The 1873 venture used ice, which melted long before the ship got to england, the meat spoiled and had to be thrown overboard. Given the length of the voyage, a passive cooling system like that just wont work. Ie if you managed to cram enough ice and insulation in to keep the meat cold that long, thered be room for so little meat that it could never pay.

Note that the first economical system for shipping refrigerated meat by rail in the US only dates to 1878 and that was passive.

I would bet refrigeration tech just wasnt up to the task until about then.
 
Basivally, i dont think you can get it to happen.

The 1873 venture used ice, which melted long before the ship got to england, the meat spoiled and had to be thrown overboard. Given the length of the voyage, a passive cooling system like that just wont work. Ie if you managed to cram enough ice and insulation in to keep the meat cold that long, thered be room for so little meat that it could never pay.

Note that the first economical system for shipping refrigerated meat by rail in the US only dates to 1878 and that was passive.

I would bet refrigeration tech just wasnt up to the task until about then.
In regards to the Norfolk's cooling system I've found conflicting information in my sources. Napoleon's Buttons states that it used an ether-based mechanical-compression system that failed at sea. Now according to some internet sources and "To Feed a Nation: A History of Australian Food Science and Technology" it used a cold room system where pre-frozen meat was placed in a jacketed tank with ice and salt placed on top with the intent of controlling temperature by manipulating the amounts of salt used. But faulty manufacturing of the tanks lead caused more ice to be used then planned and it eventually ran out while still at sea.

Regardless of which is true James Harrison had been experiment with ether-based refrigeration systems since the 1850s and had supplied several to various businesses which required them. Therefore he knew how to build such types of systems and I'll assume could have plausibly built one for the Norfolk with the right POD. If this had been done I'd imagine the successfulness of transoceanic meat-shipping could be proven several years before it was in OTL and lead to Australia's economy growing sooner and perhaps faster than in OTL.

So with that setting in place what butterflies may be created?
 
Why do you think it would have such a large effect? While it would speed up the weakening of the dominance of wool in terms of Australian agriculture by a few years and would result in British meat prices being a few percent lower I can't imagine many other significant changes resulting from this.
 
I really just want to manufacture a situation in which the provinces of Australia become for powerful and independent of each other. If possible I'd like to find a way to create an Australian Civil war or at least a war between two provinces and the best way I can think of doing that is to first increase their economies and wealth and meat exports was one of my first ideas on how to do this.
 
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