SYMHC Classics: Air Conditioning
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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This 2018 episode covers the many ways people have dealt with heat and humidity in history. As mechanical cooling became more ubiquitous, some of the cultural practices for keeping cool were made obsolete.
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| 0:00.0 | What if buildings could tell you how they could be more efficient? |
| 0:05.0 | Well, you could partner with IBM, use their software to collect and analyze data from HVACs to elevators to lights. |
| 0:12.0 | Then you can use AI-driven insights to pinpoint inefficiency and act on it, saving energy, money, and emissions. |
| 0:19.0 | That's the sustainability solution IBM and the global real estate company created. |
| 0:23.0 | What will you create? Learn more at IBM.com slash sustainability. |
| 0:28.0 | IBM, let's create. |
| 0:30.0 | The biggest black market you've never heard of might be blooming right under your nose. |
| 0:35.0 | This plan could sell for between ten and fifteen thousand dollars on the open market. |
| 0:39.0 | And where there's big money, there are bigger risks. |
| 0:42.0 | We would just tie up these big M16s stuck to our heads. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Summer Rain Oaks. I'm a plant expert and author. |
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| 1:01.0 | Happy Saturday! |
| 1:04.0 | Not too long ago we had an episode on Augustine Daily and we talked about the installation of air conditioning at his Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York. |
| 1:14.0 | Not long after that episode came out, we got an email from listener Charlotte asking if we had ever done an episode on the history of air conditioning and I thought, hey! |
| 1:23.0 | I meant to pull that out as a Saturday classic to run after the Augustine Daily episode, but I forgot. |
| 1:30.0 | So here it is now, weeks later. |
| 1:33.0 | Thanks Charlotte! This episode originally came out on August 29, 2018. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeart Radio. |
| 1:46.0 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. It's August. |
| 1:58.0 | Although by the time this podcast comes out, it could possibly be September, not quite sure when this one's gonna drop yet. |
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