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Air Conditioning in the 21st Century
Many antibiotics, nitroglycerine and lots of other drugs can lose their efficacy if not stored at so called roommper re which is defined as between 20 and 25 degrees celsius. In ancient egypt, houses were cooled by hanging reeds from windows and trickling water down them. The eighth century chinese emperor jan jon had a cool hall built in the imperial palace that featured water powered fans. A two thousand three european heat wave that was concentrated in france led to the deaths of over 70 thousand people. Heat waves cause more deaths than lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes combined.