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.

But it’s no less true that the humble refrigerator, in a roundabout way, enabled the development of the first atom bomb. While reading the newspaper one morning in 1926, Albert Einstein nearly ...

Einstein’s interest in consumer goods was initially piqued by a news story recounting the death of a family in Berlin from the poisonous fumes of their poorly sealed refrigerator—a danger ...

1930: __Albert Einstein and fellow nuclear scientist Leo Szilard receive an American patent for a new kind of refrigerator that requires no electricity. The most famous physicist of the 20th ...

physicists Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein patented what has become known as the Einstein refrigerator. In 1922, Swedish engineering students Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters invented a ...

Seriously. The greatest brain in modern physics dedicated a lot of time in trying to create a long lasting, energy efficient, environmentally friendly refrigerator. Einstein took interest in ...

Over his life, Einstein filed patents for a range of innovative products. The first, and most successful, of his exploits was a refrigerator. In the 1920s, nascent refrigerators used highly toxic, ...

author of Einstein's Refrigerator and Other Stories From the Flip Side of History (Andrews McMeel). "And yet he gave a lot of thought to the fridge." Einstein caught the world's imagination when ...