 One year later, in 1882, the first commercially successful shipment of refrigerated meat arrived in London from Australia on board the "Dunedin".Graaff, realizing the importance of this technological innovation for his butchery business, spent much of the 1880s extensively traveling around the world.Learning all he could about the meat markets and abattoirs of the United Kingdom as well as the meat packing plants of Chicago and the rest of United States.