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Originally Posted by Mutt
before refrigerators people had ice delivered to their homes - that's how refrigerators got the slang term 'the icebox'
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And a shit lot of time before that, muslims invented natural air conditioning in the form of mini streams and tall convection towers, that would draw air into the rooms from the cool running water and expel the hot air out of the "cooling tower" allowing the much cooler air to fall back into the room.
Visit Alhambra in Spain as just 1 example. I went there around 5 years ago and it was like 45oC outside and yet "inside" (although everything was open plan) it was not more than 27. Not a single ice cube or air conditioner in sight.
