Would you buy a fridge from Einstein/

This is an angle rich slice of history that keeps on giving.

I think that the poor 30's Berlin family that got killed by their fridge would have no idea that their lose of life would lead to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The fridge design is consigned to the oddities of technology that was never destined to see the light of day. I think it is of the look and feel of Lightburn a tiny South Australian company that did manufacture everything from cars to washing machines to fridges, heroic ingenious, key elements missing but so collectible. For Einstein it hit so many buttons taking him back to his childhood and a family prepared to stock German homes with DC electrical goods. To his Swiss patent office days, His former student. The connection to the US the land of opportunity and the business startup. So the pair, Professor and Student, moved on to tackle the big one of getting the President to get getting the bomb before Adolf.

So as there was the German chatter of some middle class family at home with their first fridge on the block, a small but lethal leak sprung from some coil. This set a Professor who had become godlike in a benevolent adventure that lead to letters thoughts and eventually slammed an niaeve but self important planet into the age of the Atom.

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