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Tropical Ceiling Fans

With all thats available today to control the indoor climate of a home, business or office, it really is hard to imagine that when ceiling fans first appeared on the market a little over a century ago, they were the opitomy if the very latest technology. Whats even more incredible, is that the earliest house fans weren't even powered by electricity. Rather they were powered by water.

So rest assured that that by the standards of those early times they were very expensive, which in turn meant that only those who absolutely needed them to keep cool were willing to pay what it took to procure them. Hence; people who made their homes in humid tropical climates were the first to buy and make heavy use of house fans, which in turn brought on the early beginnings of the tropical fan design.

Metal rusts in humid open air, finished wood corrodes overnight in the ambient dampness, so rattan was a shoo-in for the first fan blades on these early tropical fans. As for metal casings and fixtures, brass and bronze were the natural choice for their resistance to corrosion. However; todays newer tropical fans make full use of all that is inherently tropical, including modern design features such as incredibly detailed, hand carved wooden tree leaf fan blades.