Water Cooler

A machine that cools and stores water for drinking and that is usually found in offices and public buildings — often used to refer to the kind of informal conversations that people have in an office when they are not doing work.Haws' father died from typhoid fever after drinking contaminated water, so after patenting that first water faucet, Haws set out to find a solution. It turns out the answer was water coolers! As the dispenser chilled the water, it would eliminate micro-organisms that could cause disease such as typhoid fever.