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 ...

We tend to think of Albert Einstein has a highfalutin theoretical physics guru, but the physicist also worked on much more everyday tasks…like developing an energy-efficient refrigerator. Allow ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." One of the most influential scientists of the 20 th century, Albert Einstein is well-known for developing ...

Albert Einstein remains one of the most prominent figures of Modern Physics and an inspiration to many who came after. Born on March 14, 1879, the German-born physicist Albert Einstein developed the ...

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 ...

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 ...