Trying to Keep Cool Before Electricity
Throughout time, the human race has come up with some pretty crazy ideas to beat the heat of summer.
- In the 3rd Century the emperor Elagabalus built a mountain of snow in a garden adjacent to his villa in an attempt to keep him cool during the summer.
- In ancient Rome, wealthy citizens took advantage of an incredible aqueduct system to circulate cool water through the walls of their homes (pretty ingenious, albeit not too efficient).
- In traditional Middle Eastern construction, windows faced away from the sun, and larger buildings featured “wind towers” designed to catch and circulate the prevailing breezes.
- Even in the late 1800’s a very ill President James Garfield beat the heat by creating a device that blew air through cotton sheets doused in ice water.
Obviously, over the years we have gone to extremes to attempt to beat the heat. Some ideas have been pretty crazy, as mentioned above, however there have been a few ancient ideas that are still somewhat in use today. In China hand fans were invented more than 3000 years ago and are still in use today. Also, the first room size fan was invented in China during the 2nd Century and although they’re not spun by hand, they are still in use today. However, real change in cooling didn’t actually begin in the home until around the turn of the 20th Century with the invention of the first electric oscillating fan. Unbelievably, air conditioning units have only become totally mainstream in practically every home within the last few decades.
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