AIR CONDITIONING.
DISCOVERY BY ACCIDENT. A man who made a million■ dollais from. an invention which he discovered by accident arrived in AleJbonrne recently. He is Mr Miles Carrier, of New 1 ork, the inventor of the principle of air-conditioning, who is making a world tour. In lyo6, when Mr Carrier was employed as an engineer with tlio Buffalo Engineering Company, lie was consulted by a firm of lithographic printers, who asked him it he could discover means whereby an even temperature could be maintained in their printing plant. “Quite by accident I stumbled on phrey (lion, treasurer); B. Cocker, N. the plan now known as air-condition-ing,’' Mr Carrier said. “Since then I
have made more than a million dollars with it.” Mr Carrier has just completed an inspection of the Robinson deep mine at Johannesburg, South Africa, which has the largest air-conditioning plant in the world. .With this plant operating, miners can work full shifts 8300 feet below the surface of tlie earth When air-conditioning is extended to other South Africa dnines the gold output of the Union should be doubled, Mr Carrier said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 100, 27 March 1936, Page 14
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185AIR CONDITIONING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 100, 27 March 1936, Page 14
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