Who Invented Air Conditioning?
The history of air conditioning is a mixture of ingenuity and hard effort. People have been trying to cool off for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until fairly recently that we came up with an efficient way to do it. Who deserves our thanks? Simon Newcomb Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield back in 1881. In an effort to save his life, naval engineer Simon Newcomb oversaw the development of an attempt at an air conditioning unit. His work resulted in an engine with a fan that blew over lots of ice. Though President Garfield still died, Newcomb did manage to lower the temperature of the room by roughly 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Willis Carrier The actual invention of the air conditioning unit is thanks to a man named Willis Carrier. In the year 1902, he discovered that air could literally be conditioned by passing dry air through water in order to create fog. This innovation is the reason you no longer have to worry about the weather being excessively hot. Oddly enough, he came up with this invention while waiting to catch a train. The device he conceived was the foundation for the next innovation, the portable AC unit. Frederick...
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