She Brought The Heat With Her Creative Invention
Black History Year
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
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The wind howled as it wove through the narrow streets. Winter was in full force. The Parker family huddled close together near the fireplace for warmth. But as sleep beckoned, the warmth of the flames seemed miles away.
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| 0:32.1 | The wind howled as it wove through the narrow streets. Winter was in full force. The Parker family huddled close together |
| 0:39.3 | near the fireplace for warm. |
| 0:42.3 | But as sleep beckoned, |
| 0:44.3 | the warmth of the flames seemed miles away. |
| 0:48.3 | This is two-minute black history. |
| 0:50.3 | What You Didn't learn in school. The concept of central heating wasn't new. |
| 1:00.0 | The concept of central heating wasn't new. |
| 1:04.0 | By the early 1900s it had been around for over a century. |
| 1:07.0 | However, it was still hard to find warmth outside the small area where the heat |
| 1:13.1 | originated. This drove Alice H. Parker mad. An alumnus of Howard University Academy High School |
| 1:22.1 | and its sister school, Howard University, Parker realized that there was a fundamental flaw in how furnaces and |
| 1:29.3 | fireplaces heated areas. Thinking outside of the heating box, Parker came up with an idea. |
| 1:36.4 | Using the concept of central heating, Parker devised that there could be a way to harness natural gas. |
| 1:45.3 | The system would take in cold air, use a central internal mechanism to heat it, and then |
| 1:52.3 | distribute it in every direction. |
| 1:55.6 | By doing this, heat wouldn't be limited solely to the space around the heater. |
| 2:00.6 | An entire home could be heated at the same time. |
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