Speaker 1: Now, I always knew that black folks was cool, in
Speaker 1: the words of the late great Stewart Scott, as cool
Speaker 1: as the other side of the pillar. But what I
Speaker 1: didn't know, and maybe you didn't either, is that black
Speaker 1: folks literally invented cool. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't I didn't know. I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. Frederick McKinley Jones he got
Speaker 1: over sixty patents, including ticket dispensing machines, a snowmobile, a
Speaker 1: soundtrack synchronology that he sold the RCA. But those inventions
Speaker 1: pale in comparison the forty patents for air conditioning and refrigeration. Oh. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Frederick McKinley Jones is the godfather of cool. You know
Speaker 1: the Thermocine company he co founded that in nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 1: It was a three million dollar business at the equivalent
Speaker 1: to forty million a day. Keep up see The portable
Speaker 1: cooling units that he designed were very important during World
Speaker 1: War Two. It preserved blood, medicine food for the army
Speaker 1: to use at the hospitals and on the battlefields. See
Speaker 1: the refrigeration units were solely made for the military until
Speaker 1: after the war, and then they became available for commercial use.
Speaker 1: Frederick McKinley Jones was born to an Irish dad and
Speaker 1: a black mom May seventeenth, eighteen ninety three, and not
Speaker 1: much is known about his mother. It was said that
Speaker 1: she left his life and you can't see my air quotes,
Speaker 1: but left his life when he was a child. I mean,
Speaker 1: could her black self have been ran out of at Covington,
Speaker 1: Kentucky town after reproducing with an irishman? Who knows? If so?
Speaker 1: That would have been ice coal because he was the
Speaker 1: godfather of ac never mind, keep up. What we do
Speaker 1: know is that his father had difficulties raising him on
Speaker 1: his own. He was a railroad worker wasn't making much bread,
Speaker 1: so by the time Frederick was eight, he was sent
Speaker 1: to a rent three in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was raised
Speaker 1: by a Catholic priest, father Ryan, and two years later
Speaker 1: his dad died. The next year, when fred was in
Speaker 1: the sixth grade, he dropped out. He began working odd jobs,
Speaker 1: but by the time he was fourteen he was a
Speaker 1: self taught mechanic. By the time he was nineteen, he
Speaker 1: had built several cars, and Frederick was known as that
Speaker 1: dude in the Great Lakes Bay region for racing cars
Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen. By the time he was twenty years old,
Speaker 1: he'd earned his engineering license in Minnesota, and twenty five
Speaker 1: years later he'd been vent refrigeration and air conditioning that
Speaker 1: would literally be one of the coolest inventions ever. And
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know