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Hogs, Housewives
In Air-Conditioned
Comfort...
Washington -- When the temperature hit 100 degrees one July day in Illinois, a farmer hurried into town to buy an air conditioner - for his hogs.
“They need it worse than I do,’’ he explained.
The hogs are indebted to Dr. Willis Carrier, who in 1902 perfected a device that controlled temperature, humidity, and air cleanliness in a Brooklyn printing plant.
Since then, hundreds of uses for air conditioning have developed, the National Geographic Society says. Air conditioners now are so widely used that 133 room-sized units were sold in Alaska in 1969.
Works at Night
The latest development is a system that stores coolness at
94.9%