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How Air Conditioning Saved the Movies - Short #262
In this short podcast episode, Bryan explores an interesting story in the history of HVAC: how air conditioning saved the movies.
In the summer of 1925 in NYC, a new film was set to appear on the big screen... but the theater was stuffy with no fan that could cool down the sheer mass of people packed into the room. People were uncomfortable, and theater attendance plummeted in the summer. The movie industry struggled to fill seats in the summer.
Willis Carrier, who had solved humidity problems in factories and printing plants, was called on by the theater owners to cool a 2000-seat auditorium…
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