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Albert Einstein was not only a world famous physicist, but also a practical inventor. Together with Leo Szilard, he designed three alternative refrigerators. The ideas were ingenious, but none ever found their way into the kitchen.
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Gene Dannen, 1997. ‘The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerators’. Scientific American 1997 (January) 74–79.
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Schils, R. (2012). Albert Einstein. In: How James Watt Invented the Copier. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0860-4_20
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