Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
by toomanybeersies on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:52AM
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Before refrigeration, people would use evaporative cooling to keep things cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
by Cthulhu_ on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:55AM
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And cooler cabinets, where they had blocks of ice in a compartiment at the top of a closet (of sorts).
(source: guided tour of a late-1800s castle with a fully equipped French kitchen complex. Complex because they had rooms for separate tasks.)
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
by BuildTheRobots on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:19AM
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Ice Houses were really popular; especially in the UK:
Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
by noefingway on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:53AM
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Harvesting ice in the winter was a common and wide spread activity in North America (and most of Europe). Short article on Hudson River ice harvesting http://www.genealogy.clifflamere.com/Aid/History/IceHarvesti...
Shizzles, I couldn't make a simple flame by myself ;p