Refrigeration Quotes
Because of his deep hostility to Austria, Bismarck was sent by the Prussian government to St. Petersburg, Russia, as ambassador. He complained that he was in exile:
See {44386} for the public opinion that doomed the invention.
Gorrie’s motivation for conditioning the air was to eliminate the Yellow Fever and other disease which seemed to strike every summer. He found that although he could get a patent and demonstrate the ice-making machine the society at the time thought his invention bordered on blasphemy (see {44386}) and like many new technologies could simply not comprehend its utility. It was a commercial failure. See {601961}