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History of Air Conditionig - It wasn't invented for you.
We think air conditioning was invented for comfort. It wasn't.
In 1902, a 25-year-old engineer named Willis Carrier designed a machine to solve a printing problem: humid air was making paper swell and ruining color print runs at a Brooklyn plant. For the next twenty years his invention cooled ink, silk and candy. Almost everything except human beings.
In this episode of Hidden History, Aiden Thomas traces how humans learned to make their own weather:
- The 1896 New York heat wave that killed well over a thousand people
- Persian wind towers and ice houses that kept ice frozen in the desert
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