Legendary Ceiling Fans
Monday, May 5th, 2008
A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, which employs hub-mounted rotating paddles to circulate air in order to produce a cooling or destratification effect. It is considered legendary, since the first ceiling fans appeared in the 1860s and 1870s, in the
Most ceiling fans can be used in two different ways by reversing the direction in which the blades rotate. In summer, when the fan’s direction of rotation is set so that air is blown downward (typically counter-clockwise, when standing under the fan and looking upwards), the breeze created by a ceiling fan speeds the evaporation of sweat on human skin, which is experienced as a cooling effect. While in winter, the reverse rotation has the added advantages of not creating the wind-chill effect of the summer operation scheme, and of heating the air slightly by forcing it along the entire surface area of the ceiling which is typically hot due to risen hot air trapped on the other side in the attic.
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lthough there are still so many ceiling fans manufactured, not so many manufacturers are nowadays producing the high quality ceiling fans. Two of the legendary brands in ceiling fans industry are Hunter and
