While almost everybody knows how Einstein revolutionized physics with his theories of relativity, many people may not know that the great scientist had a domestic side, too. Well, sort of - in ...

But it’s no less true that the humble refrigerator, in a roundabout way, enabled the development of the first atom bomb. While reading the newspaper one morning in 1926, Albert Einstein nearly ...

Einstein was deeply affected by the tragedy, and told Szilard that there must be a better design than the mechanical compressors and toxic gases used in the modern refrigerator. Together they set ...

With no immediate source of wear and tear, the Einstein-Szilàrd refrigerator would last as long as its external casing did—up to 100 years, experts estimate.

Inside Einstein's Refrigerator. By ABC News. August 14, 2001, ... You probably have better things to do than design refrigerators. But that's exactly what Albert Einstein was doing in the late 1920s.

But Einstein had other interests that are less well known — he was a staunch pacifist, invented an early refrigerator and called himself a "deeply religious non-believer." What do you know about ...

Here is Einstein the engineer patenting a unique refrigerator design and a hearing aid. There he is building a miniature cable car out of matchboxes for his young son Hans. “That was one of the ...

Einstein and Szilard's refrigerator concept never became a commercial product. The introduction of the non-toxic refrigerant, Freon, in 1930 proved more economical.