Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented modern air conditioning.
Carrier was born in Angola, New York, and inherited his mother's love for "tinkering", with clocks, sewing machines, and other household devices. He loved mathematics, and studied it at every opportunity. In 1895 he received a scholarship to Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree...
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Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented modern air conditioning.
Carrier was born in Angola, New York, and inherited his mother's love for "tinkering", with clocks, sewing machines, and other household devices. He loved mathematics, and studied it at every opportunity. In 1895 he received a scholarship to Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He then went to work for the Buffalo Forge Company, a maker of heaters, blowers and air exhaust systems, in their heating engineering department designing heating systems to dry lumber and coffee.
In Buffalo, NY on July 17, 1902, in response to a quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, N.Y., Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system. The 1902 installation marked the birth of air...
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