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Started by Will Wilkinson · 9 months ago

Willis Carrier, Mr. Air Conditioner Inventor, we salute you! ... Continue reading »

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  • Jeff Lilly

    2 years ago

    Bah.
    The only reason that Washington DC is able to support so many lobbyists, beaurocrats, and various hangers-on is because of the air conditioner. The city is barely habitable otherwise.
    The whole military industrial complex is this man's fault.
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  • Will Wilkinson

    2 years ago

    Yes. But at least this hanger-on is cool!
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  • Luka

    2 years ago

    Amen! Although, strangely (given how much I love air conditioning) I have not once owned an air conditioner in my 9+ years in Los Angeles. Thankfully, the past 4+ have been by the beach, where a/c isn't usually necessary. I have lived outside of LA, though. One of the more recent times was in 1999. Summer. NYC. The building required that I pay a flat fee of $50 a month to use a window unit. New York was crazy hot and humid that summer. Terrible. I paid that fee. I turned the thing on the moment it was installed. I turned it off a couple months later when I had to give it back. I don't know that I turned it off other than that...My apartment was a thing of beauty. An island of refreshing coldness on a real island of ungodly heat and humidity...Thanks Willis. You're the man.
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