Synopsis

Who could truly conceive of life without our climate control? On frigid winter evenings and sweltering summer days, we owe a debt of gratitude to those forward-thinking individuals who harnessed two fundamental forces—fire and ice—and transformed them into remarkable modern innovations. Fire warmed the caves and simple homes of humankind for centuries, but the technology of cooling developed much later, as this history of heating and air conditioning reveals, tracing advancements from domestic a