Having absolutely zero knowledge of the situation other than "she was Black"...yes
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Not exactly well written, but ...
> Heating Furnace
Alice Parker in 1919? No!In the hypocaust heating systems built by the ancient Romans, hot air from a furnace circulated under the floor and up through channels inside the walls, thereby distributing heat evenly around the building. One of the most famous heating systems in recent centuries was the iron furnace stove known as the “Franklin stove,” named after its purported originator Benjamin Franklin around 1745 AD. The US had issued over 4000 patents for heating stoves and furnaces by 1888 (Benjamin Butterworth, Growth of Industrial Art, 1888).
https://web.archive.org/web/20180515141047/https://whitelocust.wordpress.com/black-invention-myths/
I had to use the Yandex search engine to find this.
> Heating Furnace
Alice Parker in 1919? No!In the hypocaust heating systems built by the ancient Romans, hot air from a furnace circulated under the floor and up through channels inside the walls, thereby distributing heat evenly around the building. One of the most famous heating systems in recent centuries was the iron furnace stove known as the “Franklin stove,” named after its purported originator Benjamin Franklin around 1745 AD. The US had issued over 4000 patents for heating stoves and furnaces by 1888 (Benjamin Butterworth, Growth of Industrial Art, 1888).
https://web.archive.org/web/20180515141047/https://whitelocust.wordpress.com/black-invention-myths/
I had to use the Yandex search engine to find this.
Thank you, just as I thought.
> I had to use the Yandex search engine to find this.
Google (and its AI) is so adamant about saying that this woman is the main inventor of HVAC and even the inventor of the gas furnace, it's ridiculous.
> I had to use the Yandex search engine to find this.
Google (and its AI) is so adamant about saying that this woman is the main inventor of HVAC and even the inventor of the gas furnace, it's ridiculous.
She filed a patent that was basically just a bunch of stove burners hooked up to stovepipes. It was never really built, sold, or used commercially and never would have been viable. Forced air heating and gravity air systems had been around for a while. Now there are a bunch of articles proclaiming her "the inventor of modern heating" but always scant on details.
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