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Published: 10/4/2010 Tags: energy consumption, entertainment, environment, history of comfort, home and hearth, industrial design, movie theaters

The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling.” You can listen to the entire episode here.

Historian Gail Cooper talks about the early days of air conditioning and the effort to move the outside indoors. Syndey Katz describes movie theaters in the days before A/C.

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Excerpted from: Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling