During these sizzling hot summer days, we offer these innovative ways in which humans have kept cool throughout history.
From sleeping porches to coastal escapes, these tips and tricks helped people deal with extreme heat before the advent of air-conditioning.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, With record-breaking temperatures scorching towns across the United States this month, Smithsonian magazine is looking to history to uncover innovative methods that people of the past used to beat the heat. As it turns out, before the rise of home air-conditioning units in the mid-20th century, humans were quite resourceful when it came to keeping cool. Here are six of our favorite historical methods for warding off summer’s climate extremes.
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