TY - JOUR
AU - Walter L. Bierring
AB -  of the passengers, especially in the summer vacation months, when the weather constitutes a real drawback to travel. 2. To produce as far as possible the general sense of physical well-being. Coffey:' Air conditioning is a new term, comparatively recently adopted to describe synthetic or tailor-made weather, or the production of a comfortable atmospheric environment compatible with health in which to travel, work, and live. Air conditioning is concerned with the heating, humidifying, cleaning, circulating, and deodorizing of the air in winter, and the cooling, dehumidifying, cleaning, circulating, and deodorizing of the air in summer. With the elimination of discomfort it might tacitly be assumed that comfort will follow. To a large extent this is true in the present state of progress, but not completely so. Like other synthetic materials, synthetic weather is still inferior to the best that nature has to offer. No one has yet synthesized the weather of a perfect spring day, or of a glamorous sub-tropical moonlit evening. Railroads since 1930 have equipped about 6,000 railway passenger cars with air conditioning devices for the following purposes, as stated by Dr. Coffey: 1. To improve health, safety and comfort * Presented before the Conference of 
TI - Report of Committee on Transportation
JF - American Journal of Public Health
DA - 1936-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-public-health-association/report-of-committee-on-transportation-DQvxCIU4Bl
VL - 26
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -