Many years after he revolutionized the field of physics, Albert Einstein took up a new task: inventing a better refrigerator. The 1930 appliance that he patented in partnership with a former student, ...

Did you know Albert Eistein wanted to make a fridge? Seriously. The greatest brain in modern physics dedicated a lot of time in trying to create a long lasting, energy efficient, environmentally ...

Albert Einstein is perhaps best-known for his theory of relativity. But he and his former student, the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, also came up with a design for a fridge – the so-called Einstein ...

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 ...

Given how large the green bandwagon has become, it's no real shock to see an energy-saving concept from the 1930s being exhumed and investigated further. Scientists at Oxford University have begun to ...

Prof. Albert Einstein, author of the theory of relativity, has turned his attention from the field of abstract physics to the practical problem of refrigeration and has filed patents in Germany and ...

One of Albert Einstein's lesser known achievements is the invention of a household refrigerator. In the 1920s, the gases inside refrigerators were toxic and a crack in an inner seal could lead to ...