The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew once famously declared that air conditioning was "perhaps one of the signal inventions of history" as far as Singapore was concerned. "It changed the nature of civilisation by making development possible in the tropics," he said, because it helped increase efficiency as offices, factories and schools became cool instead of stifling.
It is not by chance that Singapore is called the "air-conditioned nation".
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