Air Conditioning Wasn’t Invented for You
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Air conditioning was not invented to keep people cool. It was built in 1902 to stop paper from wrinkling in a Brooklyn printing plant, and for twenty years it cooled ink, silk and candy before anyone pointed it at human beings. This is the hidden history of air conditioning that created the summer blockbuster, kept Congress in Washington, moved millions of Americans south, and left a hole in the sky. From Persian ice houses and Benjamin Franklin's freezing thermometer, to the Florida doctor who died ridiculed for making ice, to Willis Carrier, the Rivoli Theatre and the chemist behind Freon: how humanity learned to make its own weather. CHAPTERS 0:00 The heat wave of 1896 1:39 Before the machine 3:09 The doctor who made ice 4:55 Keeping a dying president cool 5:38 It was never for people 7:18 Sold at the movies 9:22 The machine that moved America 10:52 The Ozone Problem 11:38 Comfort or control? 🔔 Subscribe for a new hidden history every week → / @the-hidden-history-project
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