Where’d that AC come from?

Carly Syms
Carly is a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago with a special interest in sports reporting and fiction writing.

Have you ever wondered exactly how your air conditioner came to be? Probably not, but you have a doctor treating malaria and yellow fever patients in Florida in the 1800s and a dying president a few decades later to thank for this invaluable summer device.

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Data Source:
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mvigeant/therm_1/ac_final/bg.htm

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