A poisoned family pushed Einstein to redesign the refrigerator. 🧊 . . . In 1926, Albert Einstein read that leaking refrigerant fumes had killed a Berlin family. He and Leó Szilárd developed designs with no moving mechanical parts, receiving a US patent in 1930. The physicist famous for relativity was also trying to make kitchens stop killing people.
Source
American Physical Society, 2008, 'Einstein's Refrigerator'
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