Engineering "Air Conditioning"

Stuart Cramer engineered the first "air conditioning" in order to control the heat and humidity in cotton mills so that the fibers would not break up.

The Cotton Mill

Here's a bale of cotton and some equipment from a cotton mill.

Levine Museum of the New South

While in Charlotte we visited the Levine Museum of the New South.  I covered regional developments since the Civil War.  This is a reconstruction of a sharecropper's home.

Charlotte, NC

Heading toward home on Wednesday, we stopped in Charlotte, NC. 

Tuesday's Map

Functional and Decorative Sculpture

There was some very creative sculptures throughout the gardens.

Beautiful Azaleas

There were lots of different varieties of deciduous and evergreen azaleas.