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From: "Nancy Cluff Siders" <>
Subject: [SACKETT-L] FW: {not a subscriber} air conditioning discovery
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:53:22 -0600


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From: Mary Lou Sackett [mailto:]
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Subject: {not a subscriber} air conditioning discovery


I found this interesting article as I was reading July 17, 2002's Hillsdale
(MI) Daily News paper; pg. 12:

CENTURY OF COOL: AIR CONDITIONING CENTENNIAL TODAY
by Jerry Schwartz; AP Nation Writer.
It talks about a man named Willis Haviland Carrier who worked for a complany
called Buffalo Forge Co. . The man was just a year out of Cornell
University and paid $10 a week. ..."One of Buffalo Forge's clients, the
Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Co. in the New York City
borough of Brooklyn, had a problem: The paper it used in its printing jobs,
including the popular humor magazine Judge, was expanding and contracting in
the heat and humidy. The printers were finding it impossible to align the
ink. So Carrier came up with a simple solution...."

So there you have it. The Sackett's were involved in leading to the
discovery of air conditioning in 1902!!


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