Air Conditioning Wasn’t Invented to Provide Comfort to Human Beings

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Its original purpose was to enable factory processes, but now an ever-larger part of the world’s hottest regions is adopting it

Air conditioning was devised not for comfort but for industry, specifically to control temperature and humidity in a color printing factory in Brooklyn. The process required feeding paper into the presses a number of times, once for each of the component colors, and the slightest misalignment caused by changes in humidity produced defective copies that had to be thrown away. Tiếp tục đọc “Air Conditioning Wasn’t Invented to Provide Comfort to Human Beings”