Willis Carrier, Bless you sir.

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118 Years ago tomorrow, Willis Carrier invented electrical air conditioning. I can't imagine life without it, how about the rest of you? Think about the number of lives, not to mention the marriages he helped save :D:D

Added: Hot Damn, it looks like my timing was spot on for once:D
For once I can suggest that someone "Chill Out" and they will thank me.
 
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A/C can't live without it

My wife and I both grew up without A/C in anything other than movie theaters. None of the schools nor restaurants had it. My college(1960-64) nor the Army had it either. A college buddy and I visited a friend at RICE University in spring 1963. Houston TX is why Carrier invented A/C!!
 
I serviced A/C's for 40 years. The vast majority of A/C work is done in the outdoor heat or even worse on hot rooftops. My homes either didn't have or we didn't use the A/C, so I stayed acclimated to the outdoor temps. The farmhouse originally was surrounded with big beautiful Maple shade trees! As they died off, I needed to retire. I now live in a very cool (and more importantly, dry) 78*F Condo!

So YES, Thank You Willis!

Ivan
 
old bear said:
118 Years ago tomorrow, Willis Carrier invented electrical air conditioning. I can't imagine life without it, how about the rest of you?
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I not only can imagine life without air condition I can remember it. On top of no air conditioning how about adding a wood fired cook stove. A wood cook stove in the summer will really run up the temperature in a house. It makes a very unpleasant situation almost unbearable. Larry
 
Prior to WWII, the largest American cities were in the North - NYC, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, etc., and most of the southern sunbelt cities were just small to medium-sized backwaters. Not many wanted to live there because of the hot summers. The advent of mechanical air conditioning during WWII and the years after caused places like Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, Houston, and Los Angeles to grow like mad.
 
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I don't know what I'd do without air conditioning! Ms. Judy loves the heat, though, and I'll often find her sitting out on the porch swing enjoying the 90+ degree heat. I've tried to reason with her. I mean, when it's cold, you can always put on more clothing. When it's hot, however, there's a limit to what you can take off without the neighbors calling the police!!:eek:

Like I said, I don't know what I'd do without AC.:)
 
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we didn't have ac in the houses I lived in until about 1972. Ironically, my dad would not turn it on even when we had it and he refused to run it in the car. As soon as i moved out the ac came on around the beginning of May and never shuts off till around 10/1. I recall my grandmothers house where my dad grew up had high ceilings and and what they called an out kitchen. It was like a florida room but just a kitchen. I can remember my grandmother with 2 stoves going canning all things from the garden. Definitely a different world back then. I miss all of the food she made. Jams, jellies, pies, canned corn, beans, tomatoes, fresh potatoes carrots cabbage, peppers of every type radishes, cucmbers and then the squashes melons, berries and assorted fruits grown on the property. That was how people operated back then. As soon as you bought a property you put in the fruit trees berry bushes and got a garden plot ready. Then in 72 we moved to the suburbs and all that came to an end. Kinda sad.
 
growing up in the 1940's & '50's there was no A/C at home or in the car.....dad loved to take us all on long car trips out west (before the interstate was built).....and we enjoyed every minute of the adventure.

A/C... didnt have it.....didnt miss it.....
 
I remember when having A/C in a car was unknown in my part of the world (Southern Ohio) while I was growing up in the 50s and 60s. I didn't have a car with A/C until we moved to Texas in the mid-70s. Most homes in Ohio didn't have A/C either back then, at least whole-house units. Window units were fairly common, but we didn't have any of those either, just fans. Usually there was only a few week period during the summer when an A/C would have felt good.
 
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I not only can imagine life without air condition I can remember it. On top of no air conditioning how about adding a wood fired cook stove. A wood cook stove in the summer will really run up the temperature in a house. It makes a very unpleasant situation almost unbearable. Larry
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That's why old houses in the country with a little land had a summer kitchen out back.
I really can't understand how inner city people in row houses endured summer heat in the early 1900's.

My parents told me during the 1920's-30's their whole families took a sheet or a blanket, left their houses in the city, and walked a few miles to a big park and slept on the ground there at night with thousands of others doing the same thing.

Times they are a-changin'
 
Here in the oven, I mean Arizona .... Any day under 110 degrees F is a true gift. We just survived a couple of days around 116 degrees F and not only am I glad to have AC, I don't even mind the thermostat wars that go on between me and Mrs. Wonderful.

She thinks 82 degrees is plenty cool enough but I prefer to set the temp at "hang beef"
 
If we'd never had it we wouldn't miss it.

My mom was telling me about the time her family drove from Salt Lake City to southern CA back in the late 20s.

I asked her how they managed the desert heat and she told me they drove thru the desert at night.
 
You da man Willis.
Pretty cool (:o) how over the course of couple thousand years moisture, evaporation and air movement all came together when Doctor Gorrie in Apalachacola added a compressor to make ice. He ran out of money, an Australian thought up the condenser and 50 years later Carrier added electricity and put it all together.
It's a beautiful thing.
 
Ah, Mr. Carrier..The man who inspired the demise of Eau de Toilette aka "Toilet Water" for men, and perfume for women to reduce their body fragrance during these hot humid summer days.:D.:(

But as my Mrs. used to say..
"You can't cover smell with smell.:rolleyes:


WuzzFuzz
 
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