空调改变了20世纪建筑中的舒适性空调在20世纪迅速发展。从最早的通过粗棉布过滤器和冰块吹风的方法，到20世纪20年代推动通风技术进步的电影院繁荣，再到20世纪中后期复杂的机械制冷系统，空调推动了世界上许多工业和休闲机构的变革。空调设计工程师、设备制造商、机械承包商和维护工程师团队中的先驱者和创新者让系统保持运行，让建筑师能够设计出在他们之前不可能实现的建筑。 这本书讲述了他们的故事，他们完成了什么，以及他们是如何做到的。本书是为庆祝ASHRAE成立125周年而出版的，由特许建筑服务工程师学会（CIBSE）共同赞助。引文:ASHRAE书

Air Conditioning Transformed the 20th CenturyAir conditioning for comfort in buildings developed rapidly over the 20th century. From the earliest approaches of blowing air through cheesecloth filters and over blocks of ice, through the movie theatre boom of the 1920s that spurred advancement in ventilation technologies, to the sophisticated mechanical refrigeration systems of the mid and late century, air conditioning has driven change in many of the world’s institutions of industry and leisure.The pioneers and innovators among air-conditioning design engineers, equipment manufacturers, mechanical contractors, and the teams of maintenance engineers that keep the systems operating have allowed architects to design buildings that would not have been possible before them. This book tells their story—what they accomplished and how they did it.This book was published in celebration of ASHRAE’s 125th Anniversary and is cosponsored by The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE).