Posted on 05/24/2008 1:44:19 PM PDT by pabianice
Philco-York had a Freon window plug-in unit on the market in 1938.
As someone old enough to remember summers in Texas without airconditioning, I’ve just said a prayer for the soul of Mr. Sherman.
Without a/c there would be no modern Texas.
Air conditioning is very uncommon where I live (Germany). That’s why so many people died in France several years ago when the heat wave hit. It definitely saves money by not using it, but don’t complain when a hot summer comes...
If you looked at it under a microscope you'd see teensy little trees, alligators, villages, aborigines, etc.
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I got one that came in an old 52 Chev.PU.It was nothing more than a fan that plugged in the lighter outlet,with a container on the bottom to hold water.It had a hanger built on it that was used to hold it into place when the window was rolled up.The same concept,more or less,as a swamp cooler effect.It is amazing how many people wanted it it and the price they were willing to pay.I still have it and it still works.
In Vietnam, it was hot. Very, very hot. We lived in a plywood barracks on the Navy side of Cam Rahn Bay between flights. The second floor was so hot it was unlivable (140 degree range). So the Navy, which had no money, asked the Air Force, which had its own mint, to install A/C for the barracks. Boy, did they. Our barracks was a two-story plywood thing with 48 rooms. The USAF installed an A/C that was almost as big as the entire building and had no thermostat. It just ran full-bore 24 hours a day with a wind speed out the vents of about 25 knots. The entire barracks immediately plunged down to about 40 degrees F. We huddled, shivering, under our one lousy Navy gray horse hair blanket and tried to get crew rest. By the second week we were all hacking-up phlegm and wiping away the steady stream of snot that ran from our noses. You’d step out of a 40 degree room into the blazing 130 degree Sun and back again. We flew most of our missions as one big head cold. All you could hear on the ICS was hacking, spitting, and swearing. The flight surgeon threw up his hands.
And yet it wasn't particularly hot. They were mostly old and ill who couldn't take much stress at all.
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