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

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3 Responses to “Real Men of Genius”

  1. Jeff Lilly
    August 3rd, 2006 16:54
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    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.

  2. Will Wilkinson
    August 3rd, 2006 17:03
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    Yes. But at least this hanger-on is cool!

  3. Luka
    August 4th, 2006 00:44
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    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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