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July 18, 2012 04:10 pm PDT
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Happy birthday, air conditioning!
Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of air conditioning. The building pictured above—1040 Metropolitan Ave. in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York—was the first building in the world to enjoy the luxury of cold air blowing on a blisteringly hot day. A junior engineer from a furnace company figured out a solution so simple that [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5tS2sdgdbyY/happy-birthday-air-conditioni.html
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