世界上伟大的发明有很多，空调一定算一个，尤其是今年。在热度爆表的夏天，没有空调的话，仿佛置身火炉。1902年7月17日，美国人威利斯·哈维兰德·卡里尔为解决印刷机受空气影响而无法生产清晰彩色印刷品的问题，他通过水循环的方法，发明了人类历史上第一台冷气机，也因此成为了“空调之父”。
The Internet, French fries, and air conditioning – these are my personal top three human inventions of all time.
Okay let's add indoor plumbing… Now I have a basic idea of how the first two things on the list work, but what about the AC?
What makes it as awesome as it is?
Believe it or not, but you have to thank mosquitoes for the invention of air conditioning, or, at least, its forefather!
Nobody loves them in the 21st century, but back in the 19th century those guys were a real nightmare.
They carried around different infections, such as malaria.
Things were especially bad in swampy areas of Florida.
A local physician and inventor Dr. John Gorrie was trying to find a way to drain the swamps, and while he was at it, he got this revolutionary idea in 1841.
He realized the problem was literally in the air.
So cooling the air could fix it!
