Tuesday, July 26, 2011

First Generation Air Conditioning

The sign in front of the hardware store announced a sale on garden hoses and box fans.

I flashed back to my childhood years when the combination of those two items equaled climate control.  We would hook up the sprinkler in the back yard, run and jump through the streams of water, and when we were totally saturated head into the house to lie down on the hardwood floor directly in front of a twenty four inch box fan.

I wonder why no one ever thought of moving the fan on to the porch, directing the hose at the fan, and creating a continuous high velocity spray?

Oh - I guess the whole electricity thing had something to do with it.

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