Air
conditioning is such a necessity in the South we easily forget that less than a
century ago it was barely heard of.
AC repair Florida and air conditioning in general has come a long way
since. Heating a home has always
been easy since the discovery of fire but keeping a home cool enough to be
comfortable that is another matter.
What we know of air conditioning today did not exist until 1902 and
wouldn’t have been seen in private homes until much later in the century. Their of course were attempts of
cooling way before the 20th century. The ancient Romans ran aqueducts between the walls of
buildings throughout the city so that the water would make their homes cooler
when it ran through them. They
were even more advanced in ancient China were engineers created a giant fan
that ran manually by a series of turning wheels which would cause a cool breeze
to go through the building. Later
they were able to power these fans by flowing water. Using chemistry to cool came around much later. One of the first tries was in 1842 by a
Doctor right here in Florida he used compressors to make ice which would cool
the air for his patients.
Unfortunately due to lack of funding and a lot of repairs needed on the
unit, the invention never took off.
It would be another 50 years before anyone would be successful in
creating an air conditioner. Demand
for keeping the air cool wasn’t in high demand and during the depression and
WWII wasn’t a priority. There were
a couple attempts though; Alfred Wolff created a system for keeping the New
York Stock Exchange’s trading room cool in 1902. Millionaire Charles Gate’s home had the first residential
air conditioner installed in 1914 and in the 1920’s air conditioning could be
found in the movies as a way to get customers inside from the hot summer days. Now things have become pretty simple
almost every home has some sort of air conditioning system and if you need a
repair on one all you have to do is pick one out of a hundred ac
repairmen. Of course you don’t
want to pick just any company Accutemp is a reliable company and provides great
service for new system installs as well as ac repair palm coast and the
surrounding areas.
Please give us
a call with any questions 386-246-7745 thank you and we hope everyone had a fun
and safe Memorial Day weekend.
