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Cool Capitalist: The 100th Anniversary of the Air Conditioner
The Washington Times ^
| July 21, 2006
| Edward Hudgins
Posted on 07/21/2006 7:15:05 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
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07/21/2006 7:18:55 AM PDT
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Lil'freeper
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To: Ed Hudgins
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07/21/2006 7:19:45 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: Ed Hudgins
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07/21/2006 7:20:02 AM PDT
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: Ed Hudgins
I suspected someone by the name of Carrier started air conditioning but didn't know the story. Thanks for posting it. I'll show this to my daughter.
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posted on
07/21/2006 7:21:34 AM PDT
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
To: Ed Hudgins
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posted on
07/21/2006 7:22:43 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Ed Hudgins
Weren't the first AC units ammonia based?.......
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posted on
07/21/2006 7:22:59 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Ed Hudgins
when we actually run out of oil I reject the premise as mere speculation.
To: Ed Hudgins
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07/21/2006 7:23:38 AM PDT
by
Graymatter
("Put only Americans on guard tonight." -- George Washington)
To: Ed Hudgins
Excellent post, thanks. He is my new hero in this 105 degree weather we are having.
However, we went with a Trane.......
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posted on
07/21/2006 7:24:14 AM PDT
by
yellowdoghunter
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To: Ed Hudgins
Thank God for Mr. Carrier! Where would we be without him?
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07/21/2006 7:24:28 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: the invisib1e hand
when we actually run out of oil
I reject the premise as mere speculation. That's just silly. The fact that the amount of oil in existence is finite is a fact, not a speculation.
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07/21/2006 7:25:59 AM PDT
by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
To: Ed Hudgins
If Willis Haviland Carrier is not a candidate for sainthood, he ought to be. Thanks to him, I can inhabit my beloved home state. As a child we had no AC, and I can tell your from that experience that without his invention to filter, cool and dehumidify the air in our homes, life Texas for asthmatics and allergy sufferers is extremely difficult during the summer months.
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07/21/2006 7:26:46 AM PDT
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B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: dfwgator
The Einstein refrigerator is a type of refrigerator co-invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and former student Leó Szilárd, who were awarded U.S. Patent 1,781,541 on November 11, 1930. The machine is a single-pressure absorption refrigerator, similar in design to the gas absorption refrigerator. The refrigeration cycle uses ammonia (pressure-equalizing fluid), butane (refrigerant), and water (absorbing fluid). The Einstein refrigerator is portable, made of inexpensive, nonmoving parts, operates silently, and is very reliable. However, leaks of the ammonia caused problems among the earlier models.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Einstein_Refrigerator.png/200px-Einstein_Refrigerator.png)
Einstein undertook this invention as a way of helping along his former student. He used the knowledge he had acquired during his years at the Swiss Patent Office to get solid patents for the invention in several countries. The refrigerator was not immediately put into commercial production, but rights to use the patents were sold to companies such as Electrolux of Sweden, and the funds obtained supported Szilárd for several years. Electrolux manufactures a similar design invented by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters in 1926 under the brand name Dometic.
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07/21/2006 7:27:07 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Ed Hudgins
What makes air conditioning so important is the fact that it made it possible to dramatically grow cities in the warmer climates of the southern half of the continental USA. Places like Las Vegas, NV, Phoenix, AZ and Orlando, FL could never have grown without widespread availability of air conditioning.
To: Ed Hudgins
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An air what?
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posted on
07/21/2006 7:30:24 AM PDT
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: steve-b
The ^known^ amount of oil is finite (reservoirs deplete). Future stores and the Earth's rate of production of new oil is not known.
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posted on
07/21/2006 7:32:14 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Scatology is Serendipitous)
To: Ed Hudgins
I drive by the Carrier facility outside of Syracuse regularly. Sad to see that much of that is now in Mexico and China.
To: Ed Hudgins
Very interesting article. As a person with a family history in the printing business of old, it holds special significance.
I too celebrate the wonders of human achievement!
PTL for air conditioning, the car and biologics research.
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