How often do you walk around a house or a building and you feel the nice cool air? But do you really know who got us air conditioning in the first place, if you don’t, read on and learn all about Willis Carrier.
Willis Carrier was born in Angola, New York, November 26, 1876. He got an engineering degree from Cornell, and then got a job at Buffalo Forge Company. After, finally making it to his biggest accomplishment: created the world’s first (modern) air conditioning system, in 1902. He installed this new invention in New York, Sackett & Wilhelms printing plant in Brooklyn.
Carrier didn’t stop there though, he developed the Rational Psychrometric Formulae, to explain more about the air conditioning system. And he kept going, in 1915 he made his own business, called Carrier Engineering Corporation.
Carrier Willis was also the cause of some first accomplishments in American history, such as, he hired America’s first woman to work as air conditioning engineer, in 1917. In 1931, a vessel, M.V. Victoria, was the first to make a voyage with Carrier’s air conditioning system.
Willis Carrier’s successes kept going on, even when he died on October 7, 1950, in New York N.Y. He was included into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1998, he was named in one of TIME magazine’s as in the article “100 Most Influential People of the 2oth Century.
Whenever you feel that cool breeze in your house on a summer day, thank Willis Carrier for it.
