The Royal Victoria Hospital was the first public building in the world to have air conditioning, developed by Sirocco Works. Fans drew in outside air and passed it over mats of wetted coir (Cooling Post | images at HEVAC-Heritage). The qualifier “public” is necessary perhaps because Carrier invented the general process for a printing factory in New York (ASME) in 1902 and the New York Stock Exchange installed a system in 1902 (6sqft)
The image above is only one of many panels in College Street Mews by Ed Hicks (ig) on the general theme of Belfast and its industry.
Update: Hicks was in Belfast in early March, 2023, to repair part of the mural that had been damaged by a fire in one of the dumpsters/wheelie-bins – see final image.
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