Einstein's Design for a Fridge to Last 100 Years
After establishing the theory of relativity as a founding rule of modern physics , Albert Einstein turned his thoughts to higher matter : home appliances . In 1926 , the Nobel Prize - deliver the goods scientist put his considerable mental energies towards developing the refrigerator to cease all refrigerator — Energy Department - efficient , environmentally friendly , and durable enough to last a century . Einstein ’s involvement in consumer goods was initially offend by a news news report recite the death of a family in Berlin from the poisonous fumes of their poorly sealed icebox — a danger which was growing increasingly prevalent as households exchanged their ice box for modern refrigerators control explosive chemic coolants ....