XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics, sci.math   
   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Paul.B.Andersen wrote:   
   > Den 16.12.2025 08:44, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   >> But where is the proof, that these fridges were based upon Einstein's   
   >> and Szillard's patent?   
   >   
   > The simple fact that the Electrolux fridge my parents and a lot of   
   > other people bought in 1953 was an absorption refrigerator with   
   > no moving parts which had the same machinery as described here:   
   >   
   >   https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/53/e9/74/2cde176   
   01fab8/US1781541.pdf   
   >   
   > The refigerator is described in detail.   
      
   Moreover, the patent application ("filed December 16, 1927, Serial No.   
   240,566, and in Germany December 16, 1926") reads   
      
   "ALBERT EINSTEIN, OF BERLIN, AND LEO SZILARD, of BERLIN-WILMERSDORF,   
   GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO ELECTROLUX SERVEL CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, N.Y., A.   
   CORPORATION OF DELAWARE"   
      
   In law, an assignor is a person who "transfers rights or benefits to   
   another, the assignee":   
      
      
      
   ,-   
   |   
   | "Servel was an American manufacturer of heating and cooling appliances,   
   | founded in 1922. [...]  In 1925, the company bought American rights to a   
   | Swedish patent for a continuous absorption refrigerator and started   
   | to focus on the gas refrigeration market. [...] In 1939, Servel (then   
   | Electrolux-Servel) exhibited its residential gas air conditioner at the   
   | New York World's Fair.[3]"   
      
   IOW, Einstein and Szilárd filed the patent *so that* Electrolux-Servel could   
   use it to build absorption refrigerators based on their invention.  In   
   return, they received royalty payments from Electrolux-Servel.   
      
   >> You only think they did, because Electrolux spent money.   
   >>   
   >> But actually there are all sorts of reasons thinkable, why some company   
   >> would like to give somebody money and declare that as spending for patents.   
   >   
   > So why do you think that Electrolux gave Einstein money?   
      
   Exactly.  As usual, Thomas Heger makes a ludicrous claim to make up a   
   conspiracy theory.   
      
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