Oh, The Humidity!

There’s no denying it: it’s summer and it’s scorching.

GeekDad celebrates the heated occasion (pun intended) with a few remarks on the godfather of air conditioning, Willis Haviland Carrier:

It’s thought that the first cooling of buildings was engineered by the Romans, who ran aqueducts through the houses of the upper class to cool them. In Cairo, during the middle ages, many homes used ventilators to move air through houses. Then, during the 19th century, there were several advances in cooling through evaporation. But it wasn’t until 1902 that Carrier put all of these concepts together.

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