Air Conditioning, Part 1

Invention

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Science, Natural Sciences, History

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Air conditioning has had a profound impact on modern life -- and in more ways than you might realize. In this trio of Invention episodes, Robert and Joe explore pre-AC cooling methods, the invention itself and the many ways it changed the shape (and temperature) of our lives.

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0:29.7	From IHeart podcast, before social media, before cable news, there was Alan Berg.
0:36.1	He was the first and the original shock shock.
0:39.4	That scratchy, irreverent kind of way of talking to people and telling them that you're an idiot
0:44.5	and I'm going to hang up on you.
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0:50.2	And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects.
0:55.2	Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.5	Open AI is a financial abomination, a thing that should not be, an aberration, a symbol of rot at the heart of Silicon Valley.
1:07.4	And I'm going to tell you why on my show Better Offline, the rudest show in the tech
1:10.9	industry, where we're breaking down why Open AI, along with other AI companies, are dead set on lying to
1:15.8	your boss that they can take your job. I'm also going to be talking with the greatest minds in the
1:20.0	industry about all the other ways the rich and powerful are ruining the computer. Listen to Better
1:24.2	Offline on the iHot Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you happen to get your podcasts.
1:33.2	Welcome to Invention, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:38.5	Hey, welcome to Invention. My name is Robert Lamb.
1:41.5	And I'm Joe McCormick, and today we're going to be beginning and exploration of the invention of air conditioning.
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