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First Air-Conditioned Automobile
November 4, 1939
Packard Motor Car Company produces the first factory-installed air-conditioned car, when it offers it as an option for $279 (almost $5,000 in 2019 dollars). It took up about half the trunk had no temperature control, and although you could adjust the blower speed, it ran continuously with no means to turn it off with the engine running. To turn it off or on, the car must be stopped and the compressor belt manually removed or reattached. Cars ordered with AC were were shipped from the Detroit, Michigan factory to Cleveland, Ohio, where Bishop & Babcock installed the system. The option was discontinued after 1941.
After market air conditioners had been installed on cars since the 1930s.
King Tutankhamen
November 4, 1922
The boy king's tomb is discovered by archeologist Howard Carter. Carter and Lord Carnarvon would open the tomb and look inside three weeks later. Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excavation, died five months later due to an infected mosquito bite, leading many to speculate, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that his death was caused by protections created by Tutankhamen's priests to guard the royal tomb.
Electric light
November 4, 1879
Thomas Edison files a patent for his incandescent electric lamp. Note: Joseph Swan had already patented an incandescent light in Britain the previous year.
Death Penalty for Denying Word of God
November 4, 1646
Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the death penalty for anyone who persists in denying that the Holy scriptures are the word of God.
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First Air-Conditioned Automobile
November 4, 1939
Packard Motor Car Company produces the first factory-installed air-conditioned car, when it offers it as an option for $279 (almost $5,000 in 2019 dollars). It took up about half the trunk had no temperature control, and although you could adjust the blower speed, it ran continuously with no means to turn it off with the engine running. To turn it off or on, the car must be stopped and the compressor belt manually removed or reattached. Cars ordered with AC were were shipped from the Detroit, Michigan factory to Cleveland, Ohio, where Bishop & Babcock installed the system. The option was discontinued after 1941.
After market air conditioners had been installed on cars since the 1930s.
King Tutankhamen
November 4, 1922
The boy king's tomb is discovered by archeologist Howard Carter. Carter and Lord Carnarvon would open the tomb and look inside three weeks later. Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excavation, died five months later due to an infected mosquito bite, leading many to speculate, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that his death was caused by protections created by Tutankhamen's priests to guard the royal tomb.
Electric light
November 4, 1879
Thomas Edison files a patent for his incandescent electric lamp. Note: Joseph Swan had already patented an incandescent light in Britain the previous year.
Death Penalty for Denying Word of God
November 4, 1646
Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the death penalty for anyone who persists in denying that the Holy scriptures are the word of God.
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