How grateful are you for air conditioning this summer?
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_An Invitation to Join Hall of Giants_
_A Museum Championing the American Entrepreneur_
Patriot,
How grateful are you for air conditioning this summer?
If you live anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, I already know the
answer. Imagine August without it. Imagine trying to work, sleep, or
simply think straight in ninety-eight degrees and rising humidity, day
after day, with no relief in sight.
For most of human history, that wasn’t imagination. It was a normal
July.
Here’s a sobering fact:
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HEAT-RELATED DEATHS OCCUR EVERY YEAR ACROSS
EUROPE, WHERE AIR CONDITIONING STILL ISN’T THE NORM.
Even here in the United States, where it’s far more common, we still
lose an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 Americans a year to heat exposure.
Multiply that risk across a century, across a planet, and you start to
understand the scale of what one man’s invention actually did for
humanity.
Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, understood it better
than almost anyone.
_“Air conditioning. […] It changed the nature of civilization by
making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning,
you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The
first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air
conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key
to public efficiency.”_
Think about that. The man who built one of the wealthiest nations on
Earth from a swampy port city credited a single invention as the key
to it all.
That invention was made by Willis Carrier. [Willis Carrier] [2]
Willis Carrier didn’t just make us more comfortable by inventing air
conditioning. He moved civilization forward.
So here’s a question worth sitting with . . .
_Why isn’t there a statue of Willis Carrier in every city he made
livable?
Why do most Americans not even know his name?_
That has to change.
And it’s exactly why I am establishing the Hall of Giants [3].
We’re building a new museum, but “museum” undersells it.
HALL OF GIANTS is a Disney-caliber, entertainment-first experience
dedicated to the entrepreneurs, inventors, and risk-takers who built
this country: the household names like Franklin, Carnegie, and Musk,
and the local giants whose contributions never made the history books
but mattered just as much to the communities they built.
Without people like Willis Carrier, our lives would be almost
unrecognizably harder. Without the next generation of entrepreneurs,
our future will be too – unless we give them a reason to believe
they can be one.
We’re raising $1,000,000 this year, and I’m personally inviting
you to be one of its founding donors. [4]
Become A Founding Member [5]
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[Renderings of the Henry Ford Exhibit] [6]
_Renderings of the Henry Ford Exhibit._
A NEW KIND OF MUSEUM
This isn’t a wing of static plaques and dusty display cases. Picture
stepping into the sweltering, humid Brooklyn printing plant of 1902,
watching Carrier’s invention take shape, and walking out into a
cool, air-conditioned gallery that traces the ripple effects of his
idea across a century – from the tropics to the server farm to your
living room this afternoon.
Picture riding from a garage workshop to the floor of the Nasdaq, from
the person with an axe to the person building the machine, immersed
the entire way.
This is closer to a theme park than a textbook: _interactive,
cinematic, and built to leave you inspired, not lectured to_.
That’s the feeling we’re chasing: we want a visitor to walk out,
get in their car, and think – who made this air conditioner? Who
made this phone charger? – and then think, maybe I could build
something too.
Your founding gift helps us break ground on that experience. As a
founding donor, if you give $50 or more today, we’ll send you one of
our “Thank an Entrepreneur” hats as a thank you. [7]
By giving today, you will have a seat at the table of an institution
built to change how an entire generation thinks about
entrepreneurship.
Willis Carrier gave us the tools to work through the heat. Help us
give him – and thousands of builders like him – the recognition
they’ve earned.
Will you join me as a founding donor of Hall of Giants [8]?
Become A Founding Member [9]
With gratitude and ambition,
John Tillman
Founder and CEO
Hall of Giants
P.S. Your support today will build a new museum experience that will
honor American entrepreneurs. Our culture desperately needs kids to be
inspired to achieve greatness again. Your support today will help us
break ground and build Hall of Giants. [10]
P.P.S. I’ve also included some more artist renderings for your
enjoyment.
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A bird’s-eye view of Hall of Giants and all the exhibits.
[Rotunda and Atrium design] [12]
_The Rotunda and Atrium design._
[Exhibit on private space exploration] [13]
_Exhibit on private space exploration._
_Hall of Giants __is a 501(c)(3) Not For Profit Organization. All
donations are tax-deductible._
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