Einstein Refrigerator

The Einstein–Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate.

While almost everybody knows how Einstein revolutionized physics with his theories of relativity, many people may not know that the great scientist had a domestic side, too.

Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.

This video briefly explains the genius behind the Einstein-Szilard Absorption Refrigerator that functions without the need for electricity or moving parts. D...

Scientists relaunch a 1930 invention that uses no electricity and would reduce greenhouse gases

We tend to think of Albert Einstein has a highfalutin theoretical physics guru, but the physicist also worked on much more everyday tasks...like developing an energy-efficient refrigerator. Allow Jennifer Ouellette from Cocktail Party Physics to explain.

Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator in the 1930s that doesn't use greenhouse gases and can run without electricity. So what happened to it?

TreeHugger has published a lot of posts about absorption refrigerators; they are common in off-grid situations and because they run on heat, they are possibly key to the holy grail of solar powered air conditioning. Jennifer

The unknown whiz-kid who whips up the next great invention in a garage is part of our modern mythology.

It looks like the father of modern physics had more up his sleeve than the theory of relativity. Long after he changed the landscape of modern physics, Albert Einstein and his former student Leo Szilard patented a refrigerator that had no moving parts and used only pressurized gases for cooling. It got overshadowed 20 years later, in the 1950s, when more efficient, if environmentally-damaging, freon-compressors for refrigerators became available.

Did you know Albert Eistein wanted to make a fridge? Seriously. The greatest brain in modern physics dedicated a lot of time in trying to create a long lasting, energy efficient, environmentally friendly refrigerator.

When most people think of Albert Einstein, refrigerators may not be the first thing to come to mind. (There was that whole theory of relativity thing.) But Einstein did in fact design a type of refrigerator. It’s a variant on the absorption refrigerator design, based on the one created by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters.

On this day in tech history, physicists Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein received a patent for an absorption refrigerator that didn't require...

Often used synonymously with “genius”, he is arguably the most recognisable scientist of all time, with the most recognisable scientific equation, E=mc², describing how mass relates to energy.

Nearly 80 years after it was first patented, The Einstein refrigerator, a single-pressure absorption refrigerator using butane as the refrigerant, is attracting new attention from researchers in Oxford University, UK. The technology, once prevented from entering the market, could be a key solution for remote areas with no access to electricity.