Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Oldest Cooling and Heating System Contest

Air Conditioning is not a new concept!

Did you know that the concept of air conditioning was known to have been applied in Ancient Rome, where aqueduct water was circulated through the walls of certain houses for cooling? Similar techniques in medieval Persia involved the use of cisterns and wind towers to cool buildings during the hot season. Modern air conditioning emerged from advances in technology during the 19th century, and the first large scale electrical air conditioning was invented in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier. He was asked to find a way to remove moisture in the air inside a New York printing plant. Because paper absorbs the moisture from the air, the printers would complain that the colors would not print right when the air was humid. Carrier stood at a railroad station one foggy day and realized that fog was just water concentrated in the air. He also knew that if the air was cooled, the water would condense out of the air. So, he designed a machine that cooled the air as it entered the plant and collected the condensed water inside the machine instead of inside the plant. So, the first air conditioning system was actually invented not to cool air but to dry it, the cooling effect was just a bonus!

The history of heating goes back even farther than air conditioning!

From the time of cavemen using open fire pits through the first 100 years of home heating, wood was burned in brick fireplaces, and invented in 1742, the cast iron Franklin Stove. Not until 1885 would coal begin to be used more than wood. At the end of the 19th century, low-cost, cast iron radiators were invented and brought central heating into homes, using a coal-fired boiler in the basement which delivered hot water or steam to radiators in every room. Around this same time, Dave Lennox built and marketed the first riveted steel coal furnace. These early furnaces used natural convection (hot air rising) via ducts from the basement furnace to heat the rooms above. These were the two main methods of home central heating until 1935, when the first forced air furnace was invented. It used coal as a heat source with an electric fan to distribute the heated air via ductwork throughout the home. Soon thereafter, gas and oil fired versions came about to relieve homeowners from the chore of “stoking the coal fire” and relegated coal furnaces and cast iron radiators into the dust bin of history. Today, around 60% of homes are heated with gas-fired forced air furnaces, and 9% with oil fired furnaces. In warmer climates, 25% of homes are heated by forced air furnaces using electric “heat pumps” to supply both heating and cooling energy!



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