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wind howled as it wove through the narrow

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streets. Winter was in full

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force. The Parker family

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huddled close together near the fireplace

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for warmth. But as

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sleep beckoned, the warmth of

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the flames seemed miles away. This

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is 2-Minute Black History. What

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you didn't learn in school. The

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concept of central heating wasn't new.

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By the early 1900s, it had been around

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for over a century. However, it

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was still hard to find warmth

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outside the small area where the

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heat originated. This

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drove Alice H. Parker mad.

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At alumnus of Howard University

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Academy High School and its

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sister school, Howard University, Parker

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realized there was a fundamental

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flaw in how furnaces and

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fireplaces heated areas. Thinking

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outside of the heating box, Parker

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came up with an idea. Using

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the concept of central heating,

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Parker devised that there could

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be a way to harness

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natural gas. The system

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would take in cold air, use a

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central internal mechanism to heat it,

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and then distribute it in every

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direction. By Doing this, heat

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wouldn't be limited solely to the

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space around the heater. An

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entire home could be seated at

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the same. Parker

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applied for and received Be

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Patton for the first central

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heating system on December twenty

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third, my team Nine P.

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Less than twenty years later,

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her invention worked with other

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inventors ideas for it doesn't

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distributed heating systems. Parker's creativity

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fuel the development of the

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same heating systems that we

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use today. Alice

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H. Parker change the world

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long before we knew. In

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order to move towards the future, you've

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got to look to the past. This

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