Nobody Remembers John Gorrie
Nobody Remembers
Not many people know that the guy who invented air conditioning, was…robbed of his fortune. You can bet your last greatest idea, that this still happens every single day. The inventor gets basically…robbed. It’s just that robbing the little guy, never gets talked about much. 
But those who have more power, and money are very good at it.
It was John Gorrie who invented the air conditioner.
Dr. John Gorrie was a Florida physician who was looking for a way to make his patients suffering from yellow fever and malaria more comfortable. It was the 1840’s and it before they knew that mosquitoes were the cause, so most doctors figured it was caused by ‘bad air.”
The doctor thought if he could just cool the air, they would all feel better.
In the Apalachicola Commercial Advertiser he wrote this:
“If the air were highly compressed, it would heat up by the energy of compression. If this compressed air were run through metal pipes cooled with water, and if this air cooled to the water temperature was expanded down to atmospheric pressure again, very low temperatures could be obtained, even low enough to freeze water in pans in a refrigerator box.”
This was before electricity, but he figured it could be powered by steam or water.
Gorrie patented his ice making and air cooling device in 1851, but his main financial backer died that year. He couldn’t find another investor, and it was mainly because his invention was being ridiculed in the press.
Who did he blame this bad press on? Frederic Tudor, the Ice King, who had made his fortune shipping insulated natural ice to warm climates.
Gurrie died destitute in 1855, and it would be another fifty years before Willis Haviland Carrier would use Gurrie basic principles and get another patent.
There another blog here, (and lots more Nobody Opinions) but it’s too nice outside! I want to enjoy it before I have to turn on the air.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
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This bothers me because I always thought that Willis Carrier invented air conditioning. Wikipedia tells us “…on January 2, 1906, Carrier was granted U.S. patent No. 808897 on his invention, which he called an “Apparatus for Treating Air,”
But John Gorrie had the idea first just like I had the idea for the WalkMan first…
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See? You thought of it first. And yet, who are you? Are YOU on Wikipedia! NO! Nobodies unit!
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