History of Willis Carrier
Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
U.S.
Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning. Carrier invented the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. In 1915, he founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.Angola, New York, U.S. Sunday Nov 26, 1876 Ithaca, New York, U.S. 1901 Buffalo, New York, U.S. Thursday Jul 17, 1902 First modern air conditioning system
Buffalo, New York, U.S. Thursday Jul 17, 1902 In Buffalo, New York, on July 17, 1902, in response to an air quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system.
U.S. Tuesday Jan 2, 1906 Apparatus for Treating Air
U.S. Tuesday Jan 2, 1906 On January 2, 1906, Carrier was granted U.S. Patent 808,897 for an Apparatus for Treating Air, the world's first spray-type air conditioning equipment. It was designed to humidify or dehumidify air, heating water for the first function and cooling it for the second.
U.S. Friday May 17, 1907 Law of constant dew-point depression
U.S. Friday May 17, 1907 In 1906 Carrier discovered that "constant dew-point depression provided practically constant relative humidity," which later became known among air conditioning engineers as the "law of constant dew-point depression". On this discovery he based the design of an automatic control system, for which he filed a patent claim on May 17, 1907. U.S. Patent 1,085,971 was issued on February 3, 1914.
U.S. Sunday Dec 3, 1911 Rational Psychrometric Formulae
U.S. Sunday Dec 3, 1911 On December 3, 1911, Carrier presented what is perhaps the most significant document ever prepared on air conditioning – Rational Psychrometric Formulae – at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It became known as the "Magna Carta of Psychrometrics".
New York, U.S. Saturday Jun 26, 1915 Carrier Engineering Corporation
New York, U.S. Saturday Jun 26, 1915 With the onset of World War I in late 1914, the Buffalo Forge Company, where Carrier had been employed for 12 years, decided to confine its activities entirely to manufacturing. The result was that seven young engineers pooled together their life savings of $32,600 to form the Carrier Engineering Corporation in New York on June 26, 1915.
New York, U.S. Saturday Oct 7, 1950