I'm coming to work this morning and it was a little chilly out so I turned some heat on and I get to thinking..

Heater... air conditioner.

Calling a heater a heater makes sense. The name tells you what it it and what it does.

Air conditioner makes no sense at all. Does it condition the air? And who cares if it does? It's used to cool thing off. Shouldn't it be called a cooler or at the most air cooler?

Just wondering.

My guess is because it filters the air and takes the humidity out.

One of life's little mysteries ! ! !

Like 'cello on ....cello off'.....'band on...band off' ! ! !

As a former HVAC professional I would have to tell you that technically the air conditioner does not make things cool. What it does is take heat out of the air, but there is still heat in the air up to - (minus) 412 degrees is I remember correctly. Heat is the measuremrnt of the movment of molecules and they do not completly cease to move until that temperature. So, we never say that things are cold because we're not putting cold into an object rather we are taking heat out of an object or the air.

Wow, what a cool (sorry) explanation. It's a lot of science to digest this early, but will read it again when all the synapsis's (synaspsi'?) are clicking later.

rodnie:

So then it's not an air conditioner

or a

air cooler

but a

heat remover.

Is that right??

But still then, why do we call it an air conditioner?

It's kind of like the age old question of why do you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?

My guess is that in the broad sense, “air conditioning” can mean any kind of heating, cooling, ventilation, etc., where air is “conditioned” (or altered) in some way. I would bet that the term has come to mean “cooler” simply out of happenstance. If you heard me talking about my heater, most everyone would have some idea of what I was talking about. If I start talking about my “cooler”… you would probably picture a large, plastic container full of ice.

Who was the first person that decided to yank the dangly things on a cow and drink what came out?

Who really cares?

where I work the large AC units on the the roof are call Chillers

And why do you have a hot water heater in your house

Hot water doesn't need to be heater

You really need a cold water heater

7. Author: saturn07 Date: 10/03/2005 10:58 AM Reply

It's kind of like the age old question of why do you park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?

And it cost ya 2 dollars to drive on the freeway

before the drawing board,

what did people "go back too"?

i have one of those het removers.

i would never think to call it an air conditioner,

i call it harry.

Im harry high & low...

Why are they called "Waiters", when we do all the waiting ?..shouldnt they be called "Getters" ??

TANK

I think I will call ours Acey....

A C?

Ok, give me a break - its early

Too early to be getting this psychological. We just call it the air. Sledn really hates the heat. If it's 60 degrees in the house he's happier then anything. While the boy and I are curled up in a ball together trying to retain heat, LOL...

Why do we call cross country truckers Semi Drivers??? Do they only partially know how to drive??? How about SemiBoneless ham???? Does it or does it not have a bone. Why don't we have cheese fondon't, for people who don't care for Cheese Fondue????

Thankd George Carlin.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)