Aug. 9, 2001 — -- Imagine this: You're the world's greatest super-genius. You've won the Nobel Prize. You probably have better things to do than design refrigerators. But that's exactly what ...

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 ...

With no immediate source of wear and tear, the Einstein-Szilàrd refrigerator would last as long as its external casing did—up to 100 years, experts estimate.

But Einstein had other interests that are less well known — he was a staunch pacifist, invented an early refrigerator and called himself a "deeply religious non-believer." What do you know about ...

Here is Einstein the engineer patenting a unique refrigerator design and a hearing aid. There he is building a miniature cable car out of matchboxes for his young son Hans. “That was one of the ...

Albert Einstein is perhaps most famous for introducing the world to the equation E=mc 2. ... His part in the drama of nuclear war may have ended there if not for a simple refrigerator.

Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879. (Image credit: Ernest Haas via Getty Images) ... invented an early refrigerator and called himself a "deeply religious non-believer." ...