ASHRAE Insights

Short, humorous quotations about air conditioning:

“We got together at (Henry) Galson’s home and celebrated. A little beer, a little wine, a little dancing.”—AC engineer Hans Steinfeld, 1984, commenting on the awarding of the Franklin Institute Scott medal in 1932 for the invention of the self-contained air-conditioning heat pump.

“Air conditioning will become an important factor in the American home only when the average woman understands its true value.”—Margaret Ingels, HVAC&R pioneer.

“Historians may someday record that the comeback of the South was definitely connected with air conditioning.”—“Comfort for Millions,” Reader’s Digest, 1950.

“Around the country, women surveyed said that air-conditioned husbands were less grouchy and children less irritable.”—1950s survey published in an internally distributed article, “Air Conditioning,” by Friedrich Sales Corp.