Swamp Cooler Repair El Paso Texas
Have you ever looked at your swamp cooler on a hot Texas day and wondered aloud, “Who comes up with this great stuff?” If so, grab a chilled Texas tea, prop up your feet and sit a spell. Our swamp cooler repair pros have a tale to tell. It starts in Ancient history and ends with that SoBellas’ maintained unit you love so much.
You see, back before there were electric powered fans and steel encased HVAC units, humans cooled things down with the aid of rudimentary, evaporative coolers. Most of those coolers consisted of nothing more than large leaves and water-filled pottery. Things went on like that for some time.
However, humans eventually tired of those basic options and started looking for alternatives. Enter one Oscar C. Palmer. He was the brains behind a circa 1900s business in Arizona called the Palmer Radiator Manufacturing Company. As you can well guess, it made car and truck radiators. But that wasn’t all that the business and its owner were known for.
Palmer also created America’s first swamp cooler. It hit the market in 1908. According to A.G. Melendez’s book, The Multicultural Southwest: A Reader, Palmer’s early models did not have a lot of components. Among them were coal, chicken wire, a drip pan and a fan. Thus, many people tried to make their own homemade versions.
There were also companies that cut in on Palmer’s swamp cooler action. A few of them were Polaraire, Wright and Mountainaire. You can read more about them in books like Bob Cunningham’s, The Box That Broke The Barrier: The Swamp Cooler Comes to Southern Arizona.
As you can tell without even reading those books, Palmer’s model was eventually improved upon. However, those improvements did not negate the need for swamp cooler repair and maintenance. That’s where our SoBellas’ swamp cooler repair team can be of great service. To continue learning more about it, please contact us at 915-585-2811.
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