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calvinmorrisontoday at 6:11 PM1 replyview on HN

Corsi-Rosenthal... they taped some filters to a fan, something the poor folk have been doing forever and academia acts like they invented fire. It's caveman technology with a fancy name.

embarassing


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pkdtoday at 6:36 PM

It didn't really come out of academia in that way. It was an innovation borne out of necessity during Covid. I don't think I've seen anybody using a box design for it. If you have a source, I'll be happy to be corrected.

Regardless technology is often named after people who made it popular, especially when original inventors are unknown or too diffuse.

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