The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-04-08


bis own weather'-that is, the kind of weather
he wants to have in his own home or place of
business.
OF course away back in the early history of
mankind he learned how to make his habita-
ton warm when it too cold outside for COM
fort. In recent years movie palaces have
pointed the way to making their interiors COM
fOrtably cool when it's too hot outside for COM
fort. But up TO now the average householder
couldn't afford to follow the lead of the movie
houses and install cooling system" well
heating system" in his home.
So it is one of the triumphs of modern sci
ence and modern engineering that anyone
who has electricity at his command also has
at his command perfect indoor weather for all
cmes and localities. And this is something
more than regulation of heat and cold, for the
new activity of science, described in the two
words lair conditioning" means the correction
of air to a point most desirable for personal
comfort, with just the right amount of warmth
or GOODNESS, correct moisture content rela-
tive humidity, removal of dust particles and
forced circulation without draft.
Since it does include all those things
other favorte expression Its not the heat; it's
the humidity" is due to 60 by the boards For
. 1t was that very thing humidity which started
? research engineers on the track that has brought
about the development of air conditioning equip
ment which embodies the functions of heating,
cooling drying, moistening, cleansing and circu-
lating of air. And the beauty of it is that the
air conditioner, smaller than the average heat
radiator, is so compacty built that 1t may be
installed in any room, apartment, Office hospital,
or place of business
More than that the conditioners are so SIM
pie in operation and require so little supervision
that two small switches the end Of the cab
ainet may be compared to the mythical lever
which the cartoonists show the weather
ot;nu han hn ontc 20 nnly hoo
sultriness, dryness, rain, wind calm. AS
matter of fact the conditioner goes the weather
man one better.
The conditioner can't guess wrong. 1t pulls
In the air Of a room, corrects it as 1t should
be to provide personal comfort regardless Of
outdoor weather conditions, then sends It into
the room so quietly occupants are unaware Of
the conditioner's operation. To give to indoor
air that delicate touch of perfection, air con-
ditioners should operate in rooms where the
windows kept closed so the correction Of
the room atmosphere isn't dissipated into the
outdoors.
This factor brings up interesting revela-
ton of the general public's regard for fresh
air. Fresh air isn't what it's cracked up to be,
according to foremost scientists In many
cases it may be more harmful than the aver
age indoor air
Air conditioners provide an answer to one
Of the major demands and quests of mankind
comfort. In giving perfect indoor weather the
year round, despite changing seasons and err
ratio activities of temperature and humanity
they open the way for industrial and financial
development of the tropics and the Orient, where
white men swelter in misery under the depress-
ing humity, and laborers collapse from the eff.
feet of hard, manual activity coupled with
heat and sultriness.
The farmer who spends every daylight hour
in the summer in the sunbaked fields will have
respite and his wife, accustomed to a hard work
ing existence among the pots, pans and cooking
range in the kitchen will blossom out changed
woman.