Invention Playlist 3: Air Conditioning, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 59 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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| 1:45.1 | Welcome to Invention, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:48.4 | Hey, welcome to Invention. My name is Robert Lam. And I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're going to |
| 1:55.2 | be beginning an exploration of the invention of air conditioning. This is going to be a multi-part |
| 2:00.8 | series. And for the purpose of this conversation, we're not going to be talking about all cooling |
| 2:06.3 | refrigeration, all making stuff colder technology that has ever existed. We're going to be focusing |
| 2:12.0 | on the invention of systems primarily for cooling and removing humidity from interior spaces, |
| 2:18.0 | primarily but not exclusively for the comfort of humans and other animals. |
| 2:22.1 | Right. Now that being said, we are going to mention some various cooling technologies and air |
| 2:28.2 | circulation technologies on the path to modern air conditioning. Exactly. So I will say that I can |
| 2:35.0 | speak from pretty recent personal experience, actually multiple experiences, to say that if you |
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