dadiOH wrote:
"Joerg" wrote in message

dadiOH wrote:
"RobertMacy" wrote in message
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On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:44:53 -0700, Joerg
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
...snip....
I run UP all seasons.... moves the air within putting myself in a
wind.

Yup. Same here.

THANKS, again empirical evidence opposite the 'experts'!
Perhaps it depends upon the climate. I've lived in tropical climates
most of my life. I've used ceiling fans for decades, long before they
were popular or even commonly available.

Unlikely, unless you are 130 years old. In restaurants or even some
upscale southern homes they had such fans back then. Often multiple
units driven by a common motor and belts. They had less than the usual
five blades of modern versions but they sure were ceiling fans.

Even today's style showed up in the stores over 100 years ago:

I didn't say they didn't have them, I said they weren't popular or commonly
available. That is true. Hell, I had to buy my first ones - Hunters - from
a company called "Fly Fan"...their customers were butchers and vendors in
open markets that bought them to shoo away flies.


I got two fans from an old guy in the 70's and at that point the fans
were already really old. Judging by the (largely absent) electrical
safety measures pre-WW2 but certainly consumer-grade. I ended up
throwing them away because the plastic in the blades looked like an
imminent failure waiting to happen. Don't remember what it was
(bakelite?). With a large fan the results of a failure could be nasty.
It looked cool though.

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Regards, Joerg

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