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Einstein, the inventor

By Luke Harding

BERLIN, DEC.2. He is best known as the last century's most famous genius. But as well as coming up with his theory of relativity, German scientist Albert Einstein was also responsible for a less celebrated discovery — a fridge. Nearly 80 years after he invented it, a group of German physicists are now building Einstein's unique alcohol-powered fridge for the first time.

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