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Automobile Air Conditioning

The Question: Can you tell me what year and what model of car was the first to have a heater installed? The Answer: The first car to feature a factory-installed…

air conditioning

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Cross section of air conditioning unit. air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and…

heat pump

(Encyclopedia) heat pump: see air conditioning.

Carrier, Willis Haviland

(Encyclopedia) Carrier, Willis Haviland, 1876–1950, American engineer who played a key role in inventing air conditioning, b. Angola, N.Y., grad. Cornell (M.E. 1901). Working for the Buffalo Forge Co…

cooling system

(Encyclopedia) cooling system: see air conditioning; internal-combustion engine; refrigeration.

Springdale

(Encyclopedia) Springdale, city (1990 pop. 29,941), Benton and Washington counties, NW Ark.; inc. 1878. It is a poultry-processing center, and there is vegetable canning, printing, and the…

Gateshead

(Encyclopedia) Gateshead Gateshead gātsˈhĕd [key], metropolitan borough, NE England, on the Tyne River opposite…

heating

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Typical warm-air heating system heating, means of making a building comfortably warm relative to a colder outside temperature. Old, primitive methods of heating a building or a…

Pennsylvania Railroad

(Encyclopedia) Pennsylvania Railroad, former U.S. transportation company; inc. 1846 by the Pennsylvania legislature. It opened in 1854 as a single-track line between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.…

ventilation

(Encyclopedia) ventilation, process of supplying fresh air to an enclosed space and removing from it air contaminated by odors, gases, or smoke. Proper ventilation requires also that there be a…