All hail Willis! This sign/marker is a bit askew not the background. :)
Posted on 07/17/2022 8:27:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On this day in 1902, Willis Carrier solved one of mankind’s most elusive challenges by controlling the indoor environment through modern air conditioning. His invention enabled countless industries, promoting global productivity, health and personal comfort.
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I often wonder how people lived in The Southwest, and the deep Southeast as examples, without A/C.
Just think of what he might have accomplished if he hadn’t wasted all those years training pigeons.
If you make your stone/concrete walls thick enough (e.g. 3 ft thick), the inside stays rather cool. There are very old buildings in southern Arizona that use that approach.
LOL!
Carrier Global still has his name, $20 billion company.
And I think that the early efforts in air conditioning began as a way to (errantly) prevent malaria as it was thought the cooler temps stopped the disease.
Yep...
Yep...
As late as the 1970s, many people in the Deep South still did not have air conditioning. I used to go visit my grandmother in Alabama every summer while growing up. Summers are very hot and humid in Alabama.
I still remember sitting out on the front porch with her on hot summer nights, drinking iced tea (and eating fresh cast iron cornbread), listening to the crickets and tree frogs while watching the fireflies.
When it got completely dark, I'd take a cold bath and crawl on top of the bed on just a sheet, listening to a rock station out of Birmingham and reading my cousin's comic books and MAD magazines which were kept in cardboard boxes in the closet.
A lot of good memories from those summers and yes, you just got used to the heat after a while, not to mention having bugs (lots of bugs) sleeping with you. At four in the morning, my grandmother would be up and in the kitchen making biscuits, bacon and eggs from bacon grease from the day before that she kept in a Crisco can.
People in London are going to need it this week. Suppose to hit 105F on Tuesday.
All hail Willis! This sign/marker is a bit askew not the background. :)
at least it’s leaning right...
Yeah...that’s a good sign
I believe it air-conditioning which is the direct cause of cities like Phoenix and Miami being able to grow into huge urban centers. They would not exist except as small tourist/military/vacations towns until AC was invented.
Similar memories, except we grandkids gathered around our grandfather Crouch to listen to his recitations and recalls of his childhood. There were tall, full trees around the house which gave some natural cooling. He often lit a Quintessa cigar to keep the skeeters away, so we stayed close. That smell of cigar smoke is a precious memory, along with the sounds of tree frogs,crickets, and bug buzzings. (Sweat is a natural cooler on the skin.)
Grandmother Crouch had a large corn leaf fan and we kids had small paper fans from church. You learn how to get very still, except for wagging the wrist to move the fan.
It was such a satisfying smack when we connected.
What’s the humidity?
"Florida native John Gorrie invented an air-refrigeration machine in the 1850s to cool hospital patients -- but no one paid attention at the time and he died, broke, at age 51."
Before modern AC in Phoenix you had the evaporative cooler, which didn’t work during the higher humidity months of July and August. The alternative was lots of shade trees (which a lot of older homes here have) or sleeping on a screened porch.
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