The AC we take for granted. Its genesis is actually pretty amazing. Beats talking about politics.The summer of 1902 in Brooklyn, New York, wasn’t just hot; it was wet, heavy, suffocating. Like South Padre in August at noon with no offshore breeze.For the workers at Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company in Brooklyn, the humidity was miserable, but for the company’s owners, it was catastrophic. They were in the business of high-end color printing, a precise art back in the day that required running paper through the press four separate times—once for each color of ink. But the relentless humidity was ...