Posted on 08/11/2016 1:26:03 PM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov ...
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Does this mean there’s global warming?
I’m not a scientist so I will plead incompetence on that subject. But as an armature historian I can tell you that there was no AC in 1896.
That can’t be, Al Gore hadn’t invented Gore-Bull Warming yet.
... as an armature historian I can tell you that there was no AC in 1896
The Romans figured out how to air condition a building 2000 years ago. They built houses with a double wall, filled the wall with sand and added water to the sand. The water would seep through the wall and evaporate on the outside wall and through evaporative cooling would cool the inside of the building by 15 to 20 degrees.
Yes it’s called summer.
Global warming!!!
The Romans have always impressed me.
Let’s see. Do I want to cross on the line that’s going to become famous for the Lusitania, or the one that will become famous for the Titanic?
“through evaporative cooling”
If humidity is low enough. Doesn’t work when you can feel the moisture in the air, like here in Georgia.
I lived without AC in the heat and humidity of southeast Kentucky until I was ten when we finally got a window unit. We stayed out on porch or played in yard until bath time and then bed, usually a blanket in living room floor a pallet as great Granny called it in front of big window fan with pillow and sheet for up in morning when it finally cooled off.
My family ran a florist for over 50 yrs. and in summer we would go to work with parents sometimes and with no AC at the shop until mid 1970’s we would go outside and play around building or block and then go run inside the walk in cooler and just stand to cool off. We survived without AC, but wouldn’t want to go back, lol.
My sister married and moved to Minnesota for a dozen yrs. Then recently moved back to southern part of Virginia, they about died in humidity, finally got used to it again.
You have to be thankful for air-conditioning.
I wonder how much of the knowledge gained in the past have we lost. Probably a lot.
I also wonder how many who worship global warming who live in the desert have built homes like this so they don’t have to burn coal to cool their house. Probably none!
You might want to take a look at this (click here) state of the history of icemaking in the mid-1800s. I thought, "Ahh, ammonia!" (I had two different natural gas refrigerators that used ammonia (no Joker), and there it was. Somebody had A/C, eh?
It was a shame to drive those cars into the swamp to cool off.....
My family was middle class as I was growing up...perhaps even upper middle class.We didn’t get A/C until I was 15...and even then it was just in the den and in my parent’s room.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the post.
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