On this date in 1902, Willis Carrier completed the drawings for what became the world's first modern air conditioning system. Carrier, born in 1876 in upstate New York and a graduate of Cornell, was working at the Buffalo Forge Company as a research engineer.
The Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic & Publishing Company in Brooklyn, a Buffalo Forge customer, was having paper quality problems due to high summer humidity. Carrier's device was designed to address this problem, though it was not until January 1906 that he was granted a U.S. patent for an Apparatus for Treating Air.
In 1915, Carrier and six other engineers formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation. Today the Carrier business is part of United Technologies.
Having been a resident of south Florida for eight years and residing in Arizona since 2017, I give my heartfelt thanks to Mr Carrier for making these places habitable.
For a more culturally oriented discussion of cool, read Cool And Uncool.
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