On this day in 1919, Alice H. Parker was awarded a patent for a heating furnace using natural gas. Parker was born in 1895 in Morristown, New Jersey, where she grew up. Parker attended Howard University Academy, a high school associated with Howard University, and was awarded a certificate with honors in 1910. According to census data, Parker was a cook in the kitchen in Morristown, New Jersey, and lived with her husband, a butler.
Alice H. Parker, prior to graduating from Howard University, would eventually go on to file a patent for a special type of heating device around 1919. Given the detail and intricacy of the sketches for her submitted patent, Parker can be seen as highly educated during her early life despite conditions at the time.
The system she devised provided a much safer way of generating heat instead of burning wood, and had air ducts allowing heat to spread throughout buildings the system was installed in. It also had the ability to control the temperature in different areas, a feature other systems lacked at the time. Such an innovation had the unique societal impact of influencing the way modern home heating systems function. The way her heating system used natural gas to distribute heat through ducts paved the way to HVAC technologies and forced-air systems seen today.
There are no known photos of Parker. photos commonly said to be of Parker were either of Bessie Blount Griffin (another inventor) or an Englishwoman named Alice Parker. Although Alice H. Parker was African-American, most photos on the internet show her as white.
They know how to celebrate Christmas in Brazil!!!
BADA BING!
My brain just logged me out due to inactivity, and now I can’t remember my password. (Bilbo)
Dear every Doctors Office and Hospital in the world: we do not want to see FOX NEWS on the freaking TV!
What’s the difference between ‘Completed’ and ‘Finished’? No dictionary has been able to define the difference between ‘Complete’ and ‘Finished’. But I am here to set the record straight. When you marry the right woman, you are ‘Complete’. If you marry the wrong woman, you are ‘Finished’. And when the right woman catches you with the wrong woman, you are ‘Completely Finished’.
Ideally, the president wouldn’t be someone whose face was featured on novelty condoms at the rape palace of history’s most notorious pedophile.
tRUMP can’t even flip a coin correctly at a football game. Explains how it’s Biden’s fault.
When he dies, we’ll be told to be respectful. BWAHAHAHAHAHA
I got fired yesterday. My boss told me to leave my problems at the door when I came to work. I told him to go stand outside.
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What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet? SUPPLIES!
What do you call a herd of sheep falling down a hill? A lambslide.
I have reviewed the request to get out of bed and become a productive member of society today, and I would like to respectfully decline.
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I want to throw a snowblower in the back of my truck and drive south until someone says, “What the f**k is that thing?”, and then that’s where I’ll live.
If alcohol can affect short-term memory, then imagine what alcohol can do!
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